The Vaush I know also goes by Adam Wang; he's a furry artist who 100% depicts sex with minors in his artwork. So looking at this my first thought was... Well duh.
In the amateur world I had opposite experiences, with Windows I had to fumble around with the Prolific drivers, while on Linux I just launch chirp or the Yaesu software through Wine and am done with it
Had RFI issues with very cheap HDMI/DP cables. But yeah, when I had to fix it I just searched for the cable that supports the highest version of DP/HDMI, figuring that these would be shielded better.
One can find many such cases where there's a West-East split. It didn't help that nearly all lib governments shat on Eastern Poland and did not invest much in it.
Yeah, that's my philosophy. Don't mess with it unless I can get my ass in there and fix it in case it goes south.