You’ve clearly not used Linux for sometime. I’ve not had to compile anything for years to fix my systems
Things have improved a lot.
Things have improved a lot.
As for the last time I used Linux, it was just earlier this year when I tried Fedora Silverblue. The Nvidia driver just Broke when I swapped motherboards, and since the system is immutable, I couldn't even attempt to debug or fix the problem.
Of course, immutable distributions are the only ones that have that specific problem, but I haven't found a distro yet that doesn't have some problem.
I will admit, though, that GNOME Wayland is a better DM than Windows, for sure. And its trackpad support is comparable to macOS. (As in it has plenty of convenient gestures, supports right-click-drag, which Windows does not, and even supports middle-click-drag, which neither Windows nor macOS do.)
IIRC, the new driver is "open source" because they moved the important bits into the firmware