No? The vast majority of hardware has OSS drivers (and they're usually even the better choice!) - the big exception here for average machines is NVIDIA.

The nvidia drivers sure are. I don't know about most drivers though. As for wifi, I own this ath9k card which I'm told is completely free, but I also own this intel 3160 chip that apparently requires some firmware to be loaded.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wire...

No. You're thinking firmware.

The driver layer (code around firmware that initializes the hardware and marshals/unmarshals comms to/from the device).tends to be GPL lest it taint the kernel. The firmware on the other hand, is the last unconquered vestige of the Open Source landscape. Logic locking, and the prevalence/nature of fabless semiconductor IP tends to make that endeavor incredibly difficult.

"most" and "drivers" are things that need specific usages to be true, but if you drop them and restate, you're absolutely right.

It is really hard to have a complete personal computer on Linux or any other OS that doesn't require closed source / proprietary binary blobs.