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It was a motivating factor for me when I originally started to look into Linux back in high school. It stopped being relevant for me when my focus shifted to preferring software freedom/transparency (and this is what ultimately pushed me into using Linux as my daily driver instead of "that cool operating system that actually runs decently on my old machines").

Now that Linux gaming is somewhat viable, performance is back on the forefront of my mind; it's fun to know that my (first-gen) Threadripper machine runs significantly better when I install Slackware on it instead of Windows.