On the plus sides: * I haven't had to specify IRQ or DMA to listen to music in a long time. * I plug stuff into my USB / thunderbolt ports, and _it just works

On the plus sides: * I haven't had to specify IRQ or DMA to listen to music in a long time. * I plug stuff into my USB / thunderbolt ports, and _it just works_, even though I'm running Linux * I can play games on Linux, real actual commercial ones, not just ones involving Tux the penguin * I can send my Mum videos and she can watch them without worrying about codecs, without me having to explain what a codec is. Software is awesome these days. Could we do better? Always, was it better in the "good ol days"? Hell no.