[userulluipeste]

"Last time i installed Ubuntu on my laptop i could not change the resolution to 16:9 and the only advice out there was to recompile the driver. For any non tech person this is just not acceptable."

Well, this is a trick that works well. People get to invest their personal effort and time into something and that investment becomes part of their identity. On that point, feeling attached, one will be less likely to criticize and will be more likely to defend instead the object of own investment. I come to believe that it wouldn't be that far-fetched for such hoops to be deliberately ignored for acting as such a handy rite of passage equipment that creates and maintains the *nix communities.