[ekianjo]

As you said many things happened in the meantime and you should not stay on your 2009 impressions. Besides, Please mention the distribution you used, there is no "single Linux Experience", just like you don't compare Windows 8 and windows XP as being a single brand of "Windows". For your particular comments:

1. Not an issue anymore in most recent distributions, and Nvidia is now supporting even the latest graphics cards on Linux. 2.3. I can't comment on that. 4. On Ubuntu and many other distros they now work out of the box.