Linux has no stable driver ABI, meaning if your driver is not open source and mainlined into the kernel, then it breaks frequently. There is no standard mechan

Linux has no stable driver ABI, meaning if your driver is not open source and mainlined into the kernel, then it breaks frequently. There is no standard mechanism of distributing software outside of any given distro's package manager other than to compile from source. Distros tend not to let people put closed source software in their repos. This has only recently started to change as Flatpak is starting to be more widely adopted; even though other solutions have existed for some time, they've largely been ignored by the Linux Desktop community. Even Flatpak gets a lot of backlash from people who believe the traditional distribution methods are best in part because of the functional requirement for software to be open.