> NVIDIA Optimus technology which is used in most laptops often doesn't work well in Linux. In cinnamon in testing I just had to right click and run on dedica

> NVIDIA Optimus technology which is used in most laptops often doesn't work well in Linux. In cinnamon in testing I just had to right click and run on dedicated GPU. In a minimal environment I just ran steam that way and games ran via steam seemed to inherit the setting. One can also edit the command that will be run by steam or by the desktop shortcut to prepend optirun/primusrun. This didn't seem notably harder than Windows. > Linux drivers are usually much worse (they require a lot of tinkering, i.e. manual configuration) I recall in 2003 having to do tinkering but since around 2006 it was replaced with package manager install nvidia drivers. I'm honestly not sure what universe he lives in. > Most Linux distributions do not audit included packages which means a rogue evil application or a rogue evil patch can easily make it into most distros, thus endangering the end user (it has happened several times already) This sounds like an absolute ton of money that nobody wants to pay for. Most Windows and Mac users get applications by browsing the supremely user hostile web and installing software that auto updates itself meaning the second a library gets pwned and pulled in by ___ it will happily push out version n+1 that cryptolockers your family pictures and sells your credit card numbers. THIS has been happened a few times already. > No unified widely used system for packages signing and verification There is no single group of people writing or verifying software and since Linux isn't a single company I don't see how there is ever going to be one. Again lots of very boring work that requires people to be paid to do the boring work nobody would sign up for free. > There are no native antivirus solutions or similar software for Linux Presumably because there isn't a huge body of people constantly becoming infected such as to be willing to pay for their performance to be degraded for the sake of voodoo safety measures that mostly don't catch new or emerging threats. > Say, you want to install new software which is not included by your distro - currently there's no way to check if it's malicious or not. There is no way to do this effectively on windows because a package could be malicious in a way that isn't immediately obvious or would become malicious later. Most actual safety is reputational.