Screen cuts off at “Google Pixel 9 Po”. So clearly the model is Potato.

Absolutely. I play almost everything on steam deck these days, and proton gets fantastic performance results. It’s not like the early days of wine, we’re talking near-native or occasionally even better-than-native.

How is that much of your library not functional? I have a library of 4200 games (some from family library) and over 90% are just fine thanks to proton.

It’s happening!

Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don’t conflate git and GitHub, they’re entirely different.

FireDragon because it’s the version of Firefox that Garuda ships with and I never saw a reason to change from it.

Yup, and can confirm, it upgraded smoothly with no hiccups.

Pretty sure you have an addon doing that, because Firefox doesn’t.

Going a bit old-school with this one, but unmoderated DALnet. It used to be the wild West, with everything at your fingertips.

Sounds like good ideas that’ll be a pain in the ass for innocent power users.

For a laptop style system, the vast majority of users expect x86_64 software to just work. There are ARM versions for some things, and some can be recompiled by a knowledgeable user, but most software simply won’t run.

ARM is the biggest reason this is unlikely to happen imo. Software compatibility is key.

Garuda is my arch distro of preference. Easy install and better default capabilities.

I don’t think Proton can fix everything wrong with Starfield.

I just use abcde to flac, and if I want any further conversion I use ffmpeg from flac.

While it isn’t a perfect solution, you can run calibre-server and only close it to open the GUI when you need to convert.

If you’re not working over a VPN, it may be your ISP trying to stop you from torrenting. Otherwise I have no guesses unfortunately.