If the initramfs is using systemd, it’s actually able to look up the root (by label) and ESP partitions (by guid) automatically. GRUB can also detect the ESP and enumerate UKI images. There’s still some assumptions being made, but it’s cleaner than ever.
The lesson I took away wasn’t that open source always wins. It was that once an open platform that people can customize becomes the industry’s center of gravity, no single vendor can match the combined rate of innovation around it.
Isn’t that the main reason why “open source always wins”? What do old industry folk think made open source software so prevalent in the modern software landscape if not explicitly this reason? We can debate security, archival, extended support, but at the end of the day isn’t this the explicitly the main reason? Centralized development efforts for a greater good?
I remember Noita specifically had some odd behavior. Let me see if I can find that thread again.
Update: I didn’t leave a lot of information for myself. Just to install
lib32-nvidia-utilsif you are on arch. I think this was specifically due to the way they were doing particle effects though, so it’s probably unrelated.