The people that wrote that are responsible for the kernel. You can’t get more general than the kernel. Other people are involved in the specifics.

I don’t have an answer because your glitch is very specific. It only happened with a combination of circumstances and hardware: in a particular place with a particular router. Even if your laptop is old, however, and its wifi chip is now supported by the kernel, there’s a chance that in the past it was not fully supported by the kernel, which means people might have had to manually compile and install a driver for that particular wifi card/chip to improve performance. So, find out what wifi hardware it is do a search. You’ll maybe find old posts about drivers to compile and install separately where information will be provided about what made it malfunction in the past. That’s one of the best ways to get the answer to your question because kernel devs wouldn’t be discussing their use cases with the hardware. People who use the hardware and develop separate drivers to solve problems will have discussed it in the past. Off the top of my head, there was a user / developer that used the handle lwfinger that pushed out a ton of Realtek wifi drivers to solve compatibility issues.

If people want to, they can still download what they bought. They just can’t buy new stuff. So, if they want to, they can download it all and back it up for posterity if they want to. They have time.

Yes, that was what I was thinking about. It’s going to be what I have to do. However, I DID discover that the ArcMenu extension is adjacent to how I want things. You can put scripts and other files on it.

Ah! That makes sense. Thank you. I’ll try that out. There’s nothing special about Nobara in terms of GUI. It’s Gnome, but with all kinds of tweaks and extensions built in that I have no clue about. The kernel, though, is modified as are some key software packages. For the question I’m asking in the OP, you can assume I’m running Fedora 38 with a very heavily tweaked Gnome desktop.

Yes! Thank you. I am unfamiliar with Gnome and its extensions. I should have had a clue that’s what it’s called because the settings are called “dash to panel settings.” I haven’t used Gnome in about 18 years.

It sounds like they were smart about it. They were like, “Wow, we can pay less rent on office space” and rolled with it. Then they were like, “Now we can look outside the area for employees that might be better than the ones in the area when we’re hiring.” It makes sense for a small company to ask and then take advantage of the pros.

I canceled my Netflix. I’m sure more people will cancel Netflix if they don’t have more stuff to watch. That’s actually why I canceled. I couldn’t find anything new I wanted to watch. Now that every company has its own streaming service Netflix has lost a lot of content and is struggling to replace it. My cancellation had nothing to do with password sharing. I live alone, no kids, no people to share passwords with. I won’t replace it with a subscription to something else, either. I don’t see the value in having to subscribe to something just to watch one or two things that interest me.