I think the Unix way is a great ideal if you develop composable cli tools, functions or libraries. In each its easier to reason and recombine a thing, that does one specific thing. More complex user problems are then solved by combining multiple simpler components. Lots of modern graphical user interfaces neither think about what the user might want to do, just offering everything, nor prescribe a specific workflow, which just leaves users that have a only a vague idea of what they want to do or a porgram could do, confused.

Being more unixy would be great for mobile apps as well. iOS for example has these app shortcuts which expose functionality of an app to be combined with other apps featuers. I think once siri AI takes hold this could be done. I think, however, the monetization realities of most software will always pressure them to do lots of things and lock the user in.

Fedora won’t launch steam automatically and let me control the UI with my gamepad. Those are extra steps for a HTPC.

I have used many distributions but for gaming I want something that works reliably with modern graphics cards, does not annoy me with OS maintenance and updates and is controllable with a controller.

Yes, I could make a general purpose distro work like that. But I want to game after managing systems for 8 hours a day.