@b0rk yeah, where such things exist at all on Linux, they tend to be of at best poor quality and frequently broken, unmaintained, etc., etc. The early and aggressive culture of "if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces" on Linux is, to my way of thinking, much more of a factor in this than is the idea that, just by magic, making those things proprietary made the quality better. If that latter were so, Windows software would always have been uniformly awesome.