openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

[cynic]

You're wrong, there are just many **opinionated** readers who want insights about the reasoning behind such decisions.
If this hurts Cynic on Phoronix I can ask my SUSE friends directly, but truth is I don't maintain my own distro anymore so I don't care that much to begin with.

no, it doesn't hurt me, but thanks for caring!
on the contrary, I enjoy it a lot!

[digitaltrails]

Those interested in the reasoning behind this approach should see the OpenSUSE New Article concerning the change. It refers to the The x86-64 architecture thread on the mailing list that thrashed out a lot of the issues. The mailing list thread covers many of the arguments put forward here.