From the Linux users choice of: 1. outdated legacy OS that has to rely on a limited subset of flatpack, snap, containerization, and CVEs... 2. modern OS with

From the Linux users choice of: 1. outdated legacy OS that has to rely on a limited subset of flatpack, snap, containerization, and CVEs... 2. modern OS with unfix-able driver issues, NVIDIA wanting people to buy a new GPU, and broken abandonware drivers I'd say a bricked GPU is appropriate terminology, as your screen will be forced into 800x600 by the hardware recovery mode and be functionally useless. For Linux users the only solution is to buy a compatible GPU, and or throw away the laptop/tablet/phone devices that can't run legacy Windows drivers. When the collapse cycle of spiral development happens: a lot of Applications are also lost in the process, as the original publishers may not be maintaining an application a decade later. dkms with mystery Blobs would fall into the same out-of-band classification. It is funnier people are upset about slop articles nonsense assertions. The question about whether something is qualitatively "good" is meaningless if its demonstrably broken. =3