Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

This again?

Was it ever determined if the first story on this was stock manioulation, bevaude it felt a lot like stock manipulation.

At this point Wayland is basically “winning” because of sunk cost. Just because X11 is the wrong answer doesn’t make Wayland the right one.

We could stop and say “here’s what we learned was problematic from both X11 and Wayland and how people actually use computers in 2025, how would we solve these problems knowing that?” But then we’d have to start again from square 1, and nobody with the clout to make it happen is pushing for that.

What problem does CSD solve? I’d think “some apps look and work differently” is a pretty bad tradeoff for “I want to cram custom stuff in the title bar which was more or less universally treated as owned-by-the-system for the first 35 years of GUIs at least?”

GTK/GNOME seem to be making themselves actively hostile towards customization, which seems a great way to lose enthusiasts.

If you like that, try to make time for the Railway Museum in York. Worth the two-hours-each-way train ride.