critical at build time, not runtime

Swappiness and many others can be changed by some sort of system preset rather built that way. I know not ALL options can be done that way, but I'd want to see changes start there where feasible.

there were many of us who really liked gnome 3 though. Not that it was issue free, but the workflow was very appealing.

Sure, I quite enjoy it myself now. But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't borderline unusable for years.

i don't have a problem recommending people use bazzite because of the nature of the whole system. It makes it harder for regular users to break it, while making it easy(er) to rollback.

anti-cheat is one thing, but i'm not aware of any DRM that doesn't work on linux? I know denuvo is one of the most popular ones and it definitely does

There are also many (some in the comments to this post) who have excluded themselves because of it.

Not that they should have the final word the subject of course. I'm just saying you can't assume they they didn't because they have a contrary opinion.

This is true. However, people with that position tend to reveal it because it supports their argument.

you still need to subtitle the japanese text in signs, chat messages and other places that appear on the screen.

I am saying that they can get away with lower quality subtitles in such places because the average user does not care that much about it. The target audience is not the same as when they first started doing subtitles and it doesn't make business sense anymore. Anime is not special. If the rest of the video streaming industry can get away with simpler subtitles, then Crunchyroll can too.

People that are into anime are into anime because it is special. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure is cool when Marvel movies aren't because JoJo was made by one mangaka and a Marvel movie is made by a committee of committees.

> Was already worried about the project given that it hasn't seen a new release in quite a long time

IIRC the maintainer was moving countries. Not saying that's the main or only reason, but it is likely a factor.

so how would a user know which one to choose?

I already get analysis paralysis as a software dev enough.

Same way people choose what to listen to in other kinds of media most likely.

I am constantly asking people who I admire or respect where they get their news/information from because I'm trying to find better ways since the general media landscape is very dismal.

> so how would a user know which one to choose?

Word of mouth, that makes peoples needs drive the algorithm rather than profits.

That is indeed important, but it's not enough.