[md8z]

You may also want to update your setup or use a compositor like picom if you want any kind of real transparency effects, X11 compositing is about 15 years old now so I think not having it would qualify as "extremely out of date" in software years...

[phoneperson]

I am not really a fan of transparency and other effects.

[md8z]

The option is there for you if you need it, at some point you may find that apps require it, and trying to hack around it could be impractical.