Comment 774 for bug 1

2 Nils:
Don't get me started. I'm sick of it when people are constantly whining about this kind of stuff. Let me explain:
- codecs for certain multimedia formats are restricted by patents, so they can't be included right away and the user must confirm it's legal to use them in his country.
- Flash is a proprietary software which also has to be installed by user, probably because of it's license restrictions.
- In case you expect the proprietary drivers to work as a charm, you really should have a look at this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware_and_FOSS#Problems_with_binary_drivers) because these guys definitely make quite a few hell of a valid points.
and finally
- if suspend, hibernation and stuff like that doesn't work properly, it's most likely the fault of broken ACPI implementation, which is not Linux fault - it's exactly the same problem as with binary drivers and this time some vendors don't even bother testing if their BIOS plays nice with OSes other than Windows (in addition, M$ accepts broken ACPI and implements specific workarounds even at the expense of unimaginable headache for their engineers)
So wake up and smell the ashes - not everything you complain about is our fault and we really can't do much about it.