That's a community effort, and from previous experiences some pretty random things can be broken, but if the contributors don't care, they won't even look into it. It's fine, but it's not an alternative to actual updates.
In the same way, mods for games aren't an alternative to the developer just fixing issues.
It is a community effort and it is not uncommon for hardware to be traded between members for establishing some driver or interface with. eBay is part of that.
In the same way, mods for games aren't an alternative to the developer just fixing issues.