Send GNUdes.

They’re not really in financial trouble. They just need more money to develop new tools to compete with industry standard software like Autodesk, Maya, Houdini, etc.

I too have never heard of Oregon City. I can only assume it’s in Oregon. The only thing I remember about the Oregon Trail is that I died from dysentery every time I followed the trail.

Zee shell ist die beste.

it will make pretty much everything faster…

This is just not true. Environment variables are only going to be used by programs that are looking for them specifically. Putting them in your .bashrc as you have done is going to make them only available in contexts where that file is sourced, e.g. interactive command line environments.

…at the expense of breaking some commands here and there…

You probably experience this because you used a single > to overwrite your .bashrc entirely with that single command. Anything that was in that file before is now gone. Using >> will append rather than overwrite.

That variable in particular is probably one used by mesa, a 3D graphics library. It’s only going to be used by programs that use the mesa library. I don’t know what it does exactly, but there will be documentation somewhere.

Sounds like any calendar.