I disagree with that. The main problem is that Nouveau was stagnant for years because it just wasn’t feasible to use since NVIDIA blocked reclocking support, so it would only ever run at its base clock, resulting in terrible performance. So nobody wanted to use the drivers, all that mattered is that they worked well enough to let users install the proprietary drivers.

But now that NVIDIA allows reclocking again, there’s actual reason to improve the performance and fix bugs in it.

With archinstall, I largely agree. However, you still need to make a lot of choices. Which kernel branch? Which filesystem? Enable swap? Which desktop environment? And other choices that I forget, it’s been a few uses since I used Arch.

Gamers Nexus is very clear they want to avoid making decisions. They want to stick as close as possible to as possible, but that’s tricker since Arch doesn’t have defaults for those, unlike Bazzite. Bazzite uses the Fedora kernel (which follows the latest stable); btrfs; zswap; desktop environment they do provide a choice between KDE and Gnome, in which case is easier to choose KDE since it’s what Valve is pushing.

Ubuntu is in the same boat, 90% of its users are using the LTS version.

Arch isn’t that good of a choice either simply because it’s a DIY distro. It’s not meant to be complete out of the box and may require tweaks and making choices that Gamers Nexus is explicitly trying to avoid.

Yes. They were very concerned about head to head comparisons because the tools for measuring FPS and stuff works differently.

You could run the game under Wayland before, but it was not default behavior nor provided as an option.

I used to force the game to use the Wayland version 3 years ago to work around a bug in GLFW that caused inputs to be ignored under X11.

But then Minecraft updated to use a fixed version of GLFW so I stopped needing to do so.

I ran 1.21.10 and snapshot 25w34a. With xeyes, I was able to confirm that 1.21.10 was using Xwayland and 25w34a was using Wayland.

As it stands today, sudo-rs is the default sudo implementation on Ubuntu 25.10, and uutils’ coreutils has mostly replaced the GNU implementation, with a few exceptions, many of which will be resolved by releases in the coming weeks. These diversions back to the existing implementations demonstrate that stability and resilience are more important than “hype” in our approach: I expect us to have completed the migration during the next cycle, but not before the tools are ready.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-a-retrospective/69127

Yes. They also reverted some of the still unfinished stuff to use the Gnu versions until the Rust versions are ready.