Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect.

I absolutely agree with you, and this statement is absurd, given the context.

Recently I decided to try out gaming with linux. What was planned to be a weekend project turned into multiweek project, and it included a lot of "rooting around" to get things working the way I wanted them to. Maybe it's linux treating me with respect, when I have to start planning for hibernation when I'm partitioning the drive. Maybe it isn't.

(Aside, Valve has done great work with proton. It's time to reconsider, if games are keeping you from switching over.)

It's an online multiplayer FPS, and I don't like getting my ass kicked when I'm not on the clock.

I can’t even remember the last time I pirated a game.

I do. 2008, Sims 2. I owned a legit copy, but the DRM was too much of a hassle, plus I didn't want my kids to scratch the discs. So I pirated a playable, child-proof version.

I almost got a bingo by checking off things I've muttered to myself.

If your software makes your clients' life easier and your internal operations cheaper/faster/whatever, it's a competitive advantage. Why would you give it away? Corporate greed or healthy competition, I suppose, depending on your point of view.

Distro developers were notified a month ago. At least Redhat and Debian have have published fixed versions. This is common procedure.

Objectively better

based on my personal opinion

competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”

Sounds a lot like football, except for the guns. Opposing team has new skins for every game, but the game loop is exactly same for every game, all the game. And the map, oh gods, the map! Notice the singular? Yeah, there's actually just one map. Some background textures change, but functionally it's always the same green rectangle with some lines drawn over.

Most probably none of those are proper IPAs. The 'I' in IPA stands for India. IPA is only half-done, if it did not travel on a sailboat around the Africa from England to India.

Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of preterm birth, and child mortality soon after birth. Second hand smoke isn't healthy for babies, either. It increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, among other, slower and probably more painful ways of dying.

Some new Debian users, usually coming from Ubuntu, are shocked by problems like "sudo not working in Debian".

Verokauhu saa välillä huvittavia piirteitä, niin kuin tässä, kun verovähennyksillä kannustetaan kansalaisia hankkimaan omat malli Cajanderit. Mitä jos nyt vaan kiltisti maksettaisiin ne verot, ja annetaan PV:n hankkia varusteet keskitetysti?