Hot take:
Linux distros like Mint, Debian, and Ubuntu LTS that ship "stable" Mesa graphics drivers aren't shipping stability at all. They're shipping headaches for gamers in the form of severely outdated drivers that lead to instability and bug reports for issues that were solved months ago...
@killyourfm Nah that’s just straight correct. There were a bunch of laptop speaker drivers that were fixed 6+ months ago that hit the kernel months ago, but older distros are months behind on them.