yeah, with the introduction of hybrid graphics and the unstated deprecation of desktop gaming hardware this hardware issue is endlessly irritating.

it's mostly settled now, and in general the kernel on the live usb's are perfectly adequate for most gear.

really it's this idiotic new hardware that breaks old standards that is the worst part of it, and as i understand it, nvidia is the worst offender, though my experience with amd gpu's hasn't exactly been smooth.

it can't come soon enough that BSD kernels come back into fashion, most hardware makers are already writing drivers already for BSD kernels, but making them also work with the infinitely large linux kernel codebase is a total nightmare.

really, the monolithic kernel model is dead, people just haven't got around to burying it yet.

some sort of effort to deduplicate dev effort especially in hardware would be a great thing, but i'm not holding my breath.

as it is, the dispersion of effort on GUI dev is incredibly annoying. i run cinnamon now, it's the one that has the best features and doesn't keep breaking compatibility like Gnome.

that's another thing i'm sure has ruined your day more than a few times too. this gnome 4 stuff is just so unnecessary. i've not seen any actual new features in it, why did they bump the version and deliberately break half the APIs so my desktop looks like a dog's breakfast.

and who in the FUCK thought it would be a good idea to copy apple's idiotic two tone fucking windows. oof, jesus, as if theming and day/night mode wasn't already enough, let's double that.