American culture warriors have decided that their ideology is more important - you see this a lot where their ideology’s goal becomes the “greater cause” worth sacrificing the mission: e.g. in journalism.

To bully those who don’t share their American liberal politics.

This is crazy guilt by association.

Personally I’d love to see more of a living world like Ultima VII, Oblivion and Dwarf Fortress Adventurer mode.

Overall it greatly expands the number of players though, even for niche games.

Like I found out about Shadow Empire after playing Stellaris a lot and then finding Dominions 6 as another 4X game, and eventually Shadow Empire.

Shadow Empire (and Dominions for that matter) have a much smaller budget than Stellaris, but they are excellent games that I only found out about after enjoying the genre.

It’ll be fine, I’d argue Arch is actually more “stable” in the ordinary sense since it is simpler - in that partial upgrades are not allowed. So you never end up in a complicated mess like aptitude can be.

I’ve used Arch for over a decade now, and have only had issues 3 or 4 times (usually from the nvidia driver).

This stops them releasing a more powerful home version though. As SteamOS/Linux will not be able to support modern HDMI2.1 features.

But I don’t think that can manage 4k 60Hz HDR + Dolby Atmos, etc. that modern games consoles have?

The DRM is so stupid - now in the era of streaming you can get literally anything webripped day1.

DRM is obsolete (and it never really wasn’t tbh).

Tell Samsung that for my TV…

This destroys any chance of Valve making an Xbox-competitive home console with SteamOS :(

With that budget I find it hard to imagine you could beat the Raspberry Pi, but please post what you do find!

Pacman (and paru and the AUR) and chezmoi works fine, I don’t see any reason to switch.

The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.

But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.