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NDISWrapper used to be the worst.
Nvidia was also more painful than now.
Nvidia has become pretty painless in the last few years. A year ago a guy told me to try wayland so I did and surprisingly I've been on wayland ever since on my desktop. The last time I don't think I was even able to see my desktop. Now the 555 drivers made things even better.
I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I've been reminded.
Winmodems
Modems in general were either entirely PnP or a total goddamn nightmare in my experience. There was no in between. I remember setting up Slackware in the late 90s and my serial modem just worked. Even after I changed it, it worked. Even after I installed an internal modem, it worked. A few years later I set up Debian or one of its kids (probably knoppix, but I won't testify to it) and couldn't get a modem to work to save my life. It was so bad that I just didn't use any Linux until I got DSL.
Edit: a couple of letters