I think I'm running Wayland on my mint today. Not that I ever cared, and my card is NVIDIA and i don't remember spending much time instaling its drivers
For life you say? Appointed? Sounds like someone already won in life and could retire at birth (owners class) then got punished by having to show up every once in a while to "make laws".
Come on, it's worth it but it certainly brings a lot of suffering that wouldn't exist otherwise. Telling my teenager that he needs to shower 5x, every day that he does sports, is suffering for both me and him.
I find it helpful that we have been keeping people full time, funded by donations. I would hope this model grows, expanding into for example specific features getting their own bucket of money, as we can voice our support for things that can get lost in a backlog.
I'm not sure I've seen how to contribute the old way, by donating time and performing tasks. Not my case, but how would someone get started on that?
This must be original content, the pixels are still shiny and crisp out of gimp