It's not at all this bad. Most distros either have the driver in their repos or a simple way of adding a repo that has it, after installing it, it usually just works.
It might potentially be this bad if you are installing from the NVIDIA webpage, but that is almost never the recommended option and I don't really see anyone with any Linux experience trying it these days (unless of course you are using a distro that doesn't have it in repos)
I mean, I don't believe in this shit but "a sense of loss" could be anything. It could mean Trump's loss in the election, or the loss of democracy in the US as we know it (i.e. trump wins). I'm a way it's a very fitting card either way.
I don't know if she proceeded to "analyze" the card any further.
The Office X Generation Zero, I would definitely watch that