What I really do not like about mainstream tech journalism, such as the weak-sauce piece written by Steven Vaughan over at ZDNet is he didn't actually try out Open Source and demonstrate something. I know this because what he wrote has little substance in it, to begin with. All the dude does is "talk the talk."
Has author Steven Vaughan actually sat down and tried, for example, to switch Nvidia/MSI GPU's and evaluate different Linux distros — as I have done?
Nope. ZDNet is full of articles by people such as Vaughan writing a bunch of talking points about nothing much at all. Now, what they're writing might be something — and yes, something is better than nothing. But Vaughan just writes the same crap that I've seen in PCWorld and other lame stream online tech publications.
Here's what I actually know about MSI/Nvidia GPU's: if you switch out a T400 GPU with a GEForce GTX 3060 12GB GPU, the change-out messes up Linux Mint in such a way that after the next boot-up it's not bootable anymore since new or different uses of cryptographic protocols are being run. Maybe I had to recompile my system's kernel headers? The problem really was that I could not get into a command prompt and so I just reinstalled my OS.
But hey, don't write about anything such as that, #ZDNet. Don't bother trying to inform us that Open Source is any better or any worse than the biggest piece of bloatware to ever hit America's whole PC industry: Microsoft Windows.
Those idiots get paid to write about almost nothing and then they go home at the end of the day without really having done anything at all.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-and-open-source-2026-predictions/