what else is there aside from games?

The Steam client...

What I want to do is install all of these Optional Dependencies that are part of the wine-staging package without specifying every one of them:

Optional Deps   : giflib
                  lib32-giflib
                  gnutls
                  lib32-gnutls
                  v4l-utils
                  lib32-v4l-utils
                  libpulse
                  lib32-libpulse
                  alsa-plugins
                  lib32-alsa-plugins
                  alsa-lib
                  lib32-alsa-lib
                  libxcomposite
                  lib32-libxcomposite
                  libxinerama
                  lib32-libxinerama
                  opencl-icd-loader
                  lib32-opencl-icd-loader
                  libva
                  lib32-libva
                  gtk3
                  lib32-gtk3
                  gst-plugins-base-libs
                  lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs
                  vulkan-icd-loader
                  lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
                  sdl2
                  lib32-sdl2
                  sane
                  libgphoto2
                  ffmpeg
                  cups
                  samba
                  dosbox

--asdeps doesn't seem to do that. apt has --install-recommended, I think, or something similar. And for all the bad things I could say about apt, that's a nice feature.

Motherfuckers!

So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

What data mining is Canonical doing, exactly?

I've been getting stutters for a long time. I've kind of come to accept it as part of the Proton / NVIDIA experience :) Though the stuttering has finally receded to almost nothing since running KDE Wayland. It's actually a lot worse on X11 for me.

I'd completely forgotten about that. I do that for Signal already. Thanks for the tip! Bitwarden finally doesn't lag (that was annoying the hell out of me) but Freetube is still a stuttery mess. FreeTube is an Electron-based program, so no idea...

(I just remembered I could startup Thunderbird with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 too)

It's mainly just Steam that's horrible...really, the worst one of the lot by far. Massive flickering in the client. Games themselves work fine though.

I recognize this is an odd comment to make, but I'm glad to see this screenshot tool supports capturing a window in Wayland. My next question is, can the screenshot tool be invoked from the command-line or via a script?

Gaming still works fine for me on 545. It's just that every other XWayland program flickers endlessly. Thunderbird, Freetube, Bitwarden...

God I hope NVK is the driver I'm using happily by the end of this year.

Is not it true with Windows? Plug and play? And while I did not study this, I strongly suspect that it is more true for Windows than for Linux.

I don't use Windows much, but recently I booted it up and found my graphics tablet didn't work. I needed to install a driver from Wacom, then reboot. It got very confused about whether my tablet or my monitor was the primary monitor, and moving between screens was somehow worse than Linux. On Linux, the tablet driver worked out of the box, but I had to adjust display scaling for both my monitors to co-exist peacefully. I also had to switch from GNOME to KDE and switch to Wayland on my NVIDIA card to get Krita to work properly (interface was split across both monitors and couldn't resize it). GNOME's multi-monitor handling was bad, regardless of whether I used Wayland or X11. Multi-monitor handling on KDE was better than Windows...in the end.

I'm not really sure which of these is worse.

wireguard

This is the way. I can't be bothered to mess around with the VPN client for my VPN so I just use the Wireguard configs it auto-generates.

The equation for YotLD is simple for me:

Adobe looks at Linux market share and thinks, "Hmm, we could make some money from this," and ports Photoshop, After Effects, and inDesign to Linux

Or:

Adobe looks at ChromeOS and thinks, "Hmm, we could make some money from this," and ports all their programs to the web except After Effects because that involves massively extending web protocols again to support all the codecs and improving performance.

Compatibility is apparently really good on Linux according to CrossOver reports only a month or two ago: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/scrivener