Never really was

uMatrix has been depreceated for several years now sadly

You don’t technically need a package manager though. It’s just a convenience layer.

Probably still for some time. I have a laptop with a NVIDIA Optimus 1050ti from 2016 or so and it’s still going strong 8 years later. It starts getting a bit tricky (but not impossible) at 10+ years old cards

They would deserve it regardless, but they’re even harder to avoid than Nestle

Removed by mod

This is RedHat Linux 6.1, it was EOL way before RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 came around

Not a huge fan but systemd does a lot of stuff necessary to run linux. Of course there’s more than one way to skin a cat, but it makes sense to have systemd as a dependency. Recall does exactly zero essential functionality to the OS that would justify making it a dependency to something as important as explorer.exe on Windows.