I thinks only applying this to companies (looking at you, Nord VPN) would be ok, but yeah demand something from volunteers is outrageous

Maybe you could use Kwin scripting API for this

If neither works, try reading through the comments of this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/noto-color-emoji-fontconfig

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Snap isn't really closed source, it's common misconception, the closed source is only backend (canonical servers), the snap core itself, which is installed on Ubuntu, is fully open source

Edit: snap definitely sucks tho

Afaik you can add kisak mesa ppa and, for compatibility reasons, and would be good to also update the kernel. But be careful, this can lead to instabilities or even black screen

It's definitely kwin_wayland

It is, but you are not really locked in it

Steam/Proton/Gamescope work outside of steamOS. Valve contributes to open source software, including linux amd drivers, that can easily be used outside of steamOS

OpenSUSE is corporate- driven

Also it would sacrifice user experience over "security" - i.e. with default SElinux config proton may not work correctly - see this bug