I mean like even taking all that at face value. Do you not worry about the only way you have to talk to friends being discord? What if your account got banned? You’d have no way to contact anyone? I’d exchange numbers with a few of them atleast. Or emails. Having a backup way to communicate seems pretty important instead of relying entirely on a single service run by an unreliable company.

Do you people not have phone numbers?

How is refusing to install spyware on my computer being an asshole? You must be young. You’ll get to an age where you realize having principles and sticking to them makes life a lot more bearable than being a pushover.

Are these friends who you know well? If so why can your entire friend group not move to a different solution together? Do they refuse to?

Maybe among gamers? I don’t think it’s all that ubiquitous outside of that.

I mean you do. I don’t use it. If someone wants to use it I say I don’t have it and make them use something else.

If your game currently runs on your hardware with your distro then it is very unlikely it will stop running unless you change your handware or your software (like a major update). Can I promise 32 bit will be supported forever? No. But it’s certainly not going to suddenly stop working because of this.

The thing is though that now build quality is going to matter WAY more. Like you need that laptop chassis built like a tank. Which is harder to find in new devices these days.

Well given that GOG games have nothing to do with Steam I’d imagine it means nothing for them.

I can’t imagine the venn diagram of people who still use discord and people who game on linux has that much of an overlap does it? Like cmon it’s got to be the worst possible of all the options. You’d be more secure sending a plaintext email to someone.

Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.