So . . . maybe it’s a good thing that Gentoo with GNU Hurd exists? Does Hurd even have an AI policy?

I think you’ll find that even distros that are generally anti-AI and don’t allow its use in their own projects are pragmatic about not being able to influence other people’s software (for instance, Gentoo’s AI policy flat-out states that it doesn’t prohibit packaging AI-coded or AI-related software, although there’s been some discussion about marking it so that the user can make an informed decision).

There are so many of them to choose from, aren’t there?

The additional threat models Wayland guards against have never, to my knowledge, been seen in the wild (and may never be). So any improvement in security is hypothetical, and there are some tradeoffs in areas like accessibility. It’s fine to make your own decision of which stack to use on the basis of hypothetical security improvements, but saying that X is insecure because it doesn’t protect against something that never happens is dubious.

There are, I think, two mutually exclusive XDG APIs for systray icons. They probably implemented the newer one, which should work for most people.

Why can’t Nixpkgs backend ensure that new package versions build successfully before shipping them to end users?! It would take a lot of work to do so

It’s the kind of work that can be automated. Most of the Gentoo tinderbox build-everything-in-the-tree-and-file-bugs-on-failure projects (there have been several over the years) have been run by a single dev. I’d assume that Nix could do the same.

Issues with Gentoo? The only one I’ve encountered that I didn’t sign up for is the occasional difficulty finding documentation for some obscure and unpopular option, like downgrading the freetype interpreter to make it render pixel-aligned fonts the way I want it to, or bridging networks in qemu to allow a VM to address other machines on the LAN without systemd or NetworkManager (still trying to figure that one out). With Gentoo, unlike some other distros, you really need documentation—it isn’t going to enumerate the possibilities in a dropdown.

No thanks . . . but I’m glad that those of you who want it will be able to have it.