Lucas Malor wrote:In my opinion it's not an opinion saying "you must not have opinions" (translation of "Xampp is Xampp and not i would like to have this and that").
You got it simply wrong.
Xampp is Xampp and it is the goal of Xampp to provide a webserver distribution which comes as close as possible to the (by far) most used implemantation of webhosting servers, which especially means, that it provides MySQL.
The idea of Xampp is a development plattform which fits to the "standard" environment Apache/PHP/MySQL. It is NOT the idea to provide the "best" SQL plattform or "best" Webserver or "best" CGI Language.
It is meant for people who want to develop and to test(!) their projects at home with an infrastructure which is (hopefully) identically to the infrastructure, which is implemented on their webspace.
Is this to hard to understand? Each distribution (as well linux distributions) have certain goals, and this is the goal of Xampp, and therefore it is completely useless and simply wrong to replace MySQL by MariaDB.
Of course you are encouraged to build your own webserver distribution, which includes MariaDB and spread it over the world. But Xampp is Xampp and remains Xampp, and that means, it delivers MySQL and not MariaDB and there are no plans to switch over.