An opinion on support from over ten years ago is not a very strong suggestion.

Your problem there is that both search engines place this image and backstory at the top of the results, so neither Google nor Bing agree with any of you.

If you think they're wrong, be sure to let them know.

Do you think Google and Bing are endorsing top results, and in particular endorsing a result like that in the specific context of what manufacturers I consider buying from?

That's the only way they would be disagreeing with me.

What torvalds is complaining about is absolutely true, but the problem is that most users do not give a shit about those issues. Torvalds disagreement wasn't about bugs in-, or complains about the quality of the proprietary driver, he complained about nvidias lack of open source contributions and bad behavior towards the kernel developer community. But users don't care if they run a proprietary driver as long as it works (and it does work fine for most people).

So you see now why that's not very relevant to end-users experiences they were talking about?

No.

speedrunning my bingo card on this thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40979003

it's embarrassing that grown-ass adults are getting their positions from what is (functionally) just some sick burn in a viral video or whatever. maybe do some thinking for yourself instead of letting someone else's circa-2004 positions rule you forever.

anyway, you may now return to your regularly scheduled programming of complaining at people that HDMI Forum won't open-license the HDMI 2.1 standard

Torvalds has said nasty mean things to a lot of people in the past, and expressed regret over his temper & hyperbole. Try searching for something more recent https://youtu.be/wvQ0N56pW74