> Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.

What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?

Most of their stuff isn't GPL anyway, hence why drivers are mostly in userspace.

That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, look at how much does land upstream. Linux moves at an incredible pace.

Edit: BTW the figure I cited are contributors to mainline.

Yet it is still a mess to support laptops, because everything still needs to be reverse engineered instead of landing into upstream.

My laptops have been running fine for years.

What I had with Linux did also worked fine, provided I was happy with randomly dropping wlan sessions when doing heavy downloads, using OpenGL 3.3 instead of the OpenGL 4.1, watching YouTube without hardware decoding, and having to take out the battery when it hang during a reboot.

Other than that, it was a great Linux laptop, 2009 - 2024.