verdigris

Based on this post I'm gonna say take it slow with a dual boot or live installation, if at all. You mention a lot of IMO fairly minor and subjective look and feel type criteria that indicate that you'll be quite bothered by minor changes. Using Linux is going to involve major changes. If you're not willing to leave your comfort zone and relearn a few things, might as well stay on Windows.

I'm pretty wary of corporate propaganda, but from the article this sounds like a pretty clear case of some greedy people taking advantage of Valve offering to cover all arbitration costs. Yes, they're doing this to cover their ass, but it's not a malicious move and I don't see how it could be interpreted as anti-consumer.

I have no context here, but isn't getting a similar level of pushback from the community under a second alias evidence of some of it being justified? Or did people somehow discover it was the same person and then the abuse started?

I don't know much about the MMP, but I thought it ran Linux -- can you not install steam games?

UFO50 just came out and is wonderful.

Right... But unless you're suggesting abolishing voting entirely, none of this suggests that withholding your vote in protest is useful.

It also takes very little effort.

Huh? You can see a bit of the card border on the edge of the token if that's what you mean...

Uhh, that's what wood grain looks like. It could still be shopped but that's not evidence.

Do you think it's a zero sum game where voting somehow disables your ability to do other activism and organizing?

I find the switch controllers to be absolute torture for anything more than like 20 minutes.

It has an APU but the graphics component is quite a bit more powerful than your average laptop.