I was there during the early days. 93/94. Eternal September was in full swing, a year or two before the a.out / ELF Wars turned usenet into a bloody battlefield of technical debate. I was there when 'make menuconfig' was still new to the Kernel build process. Was hell of a lot easier than running 'make config' and answering 500 questions in a row. Back when the only way to install SLS/Slackware was to write 50 floppies and feed them all to your target system.
Even then there was a vocal, arrogant group who just didn't get it. "Devs, if you do this, then Linux will be better". That's it. No offer to help, no offer to implement. Not a single line of code. Just long, irritating screeds to "do better".
And you know, I was there for a bit, too. The sound drivers for my desktop didn't work. What did I do? I figured it out, built out the appropriate drivers and became the maintainer for the soundcard drivers for about a year or so. Not only did I learn a lot about sound drivers in general, I learned the build process, how to submit patches and... And receive shit little comments from end users on how I could "do better".
mhub, Linux "gets better" when "you make it better". What have you done to help? You're not even posting on the Archlinux boards or groups where someone might actually have an idea and can help. You're whining and kicking your little heels on Lemmy/Kbin and providing nothing of value.
This is your wake-up call, dude. If you can't figure it out, then Apple will be happy to sell you a good Un*x workstation. Otherwise, you get to learn along with the rest of us. You are not special. If you can't figure it out, then write your own.
Or... You know... Do anything like "ask a technical question" or even "use ArchLinux forums for support". Something which would actually help yourself. Seems like you have plenty of time to complain about how developers have "...frankly half arsed it"
I'm not "gatekeeping" a single thing. You never asked a single technical question. You sure as hell didn't ask a single technical question in the correct venue. No, you spent your precious time pissing and moaning about developers delivering you a functioning Operating System (for free!) but its not "good enough" because you have sound problems. I had sound problems before too! And I fixed them. Sorry you can't.
Oh man. This line is my personal fave. You have a technical problem. Instead of fixing it you run and bitch about developers on Kbin. Then you bitch about the lack of technical solutions to a problem you never described.
Here's a free tip. Have you thought about shutting the fuck up and go get help from people who can actually help you?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=23