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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Those who don't know what they are talking about are usually the loudest. Recompiling kernel is only required if you run a gaming VM and need to bypass an anticheat that blocks VMs, and even that is a cat and mouse situation.
gpt
And there's hardly such thing as "downloading shady drivers" on Linux, where everything is built into the kernel most the time. The only drivers you \*need\* to install are the proprietary Nvidia drivers if applicable which most distros have a graphical tool for now anyways. 

Aaaand that being said, I've used Github a ton for non gaming related things, it's great, certainly not shady, especially when the community can vet the code themselves. Just like anything on the internet, all you need is common sense. 

It's almost like this guy just pulled a bunch of buzzwords out of his ass as a cope or something :P