It matters to distro maintainers, which is why it’s everywhere now.

I’ve never had systemd break either

Install wine-staging through your package manager. Every tool you mentioned on relies on that or does something similar itself.

That said, this is an XY problem - what are you actually trying to do?

Mesa has been the defacto standard for AMD for years. It’s always performed better than the official driver. AMD just made it their official recommendation recently.

I think Intel also uses Mesa, with Nvidia being the odd one out

Site seems to be down.

My example applied to all distros, the difference would be the time it takes that code change (which resolved a critical to me bug) takes to actually be available to use.

There’s also very little that’s specific to me about that, it’s a real use case that comes up repeatedly for new releases that tend to push things graphically. I’m only going to recommend distros that minimize the time to get those fixes because it’s a better user experience for the target demographic with little downside.

Considering games are the most intensive things most people will use their computer for, I think it’s fine to optimize for that use case and assume everything else will be “fine”

I’ve literally had to wait for fixes to hit new mesa versions to play newly released games. Having those packages be up to date is just going to be a better experience for people that care about that kind of stuff

Good point, sounds like a good thing for most people

NT was built to be a business OS, and the original Windows was killed off for everyone in favor of NT with XP

UAC can be configured to require a password, just like sudo can be required to not require a password. These things function the same on Windows and Linux.

When that whole thing started up Nazis seemed a lot less “real” imo. I liked it better when they occupied a similar space as pirates and ninjas…

Is this project still a dumpster fire?

Because there are a lot of people with different goals that conflict with each other? Which is true in lots and lots of other things.

TY for mentioning/explaining scoping.

Wow works fine on Linux for me

Can’t argue with that. I’m glad you’ve found something that you enjoy.

Yeah, it’s always fun to find out that a standard looking util on osx actually requires weird args and syntax.

I subscribe to the arch news letter, and they email me about potentially breaking changes like 4 times a year. Usually I don’t have to do anything about them but it’s good to be aware of, just in case.

I stopped using grub after that pain in the ass