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First of all I didn't say exponential, only you did. Second, the majority of those 3% came in the last few years. So say 1% in 30 years, 2% more in like 4. Sound exponential yet?

Might want to calculate out what the actual number is those "small" 3% represent. Or how the curve looks over time. how it changed from a mostly flat line to a very clearly and relatively steeply climbing curve.

CachyOS is basically vanilla Arch, from a resource point of view. They have their own repos, but they just mirror the arch repos. The arch wiki fully applies. For the very few special things, there is documentation (basically a few notes on gaming related performance options).

So why use it? Carter it's trivial to install, and everything you need is preconfigured to just work with sane defaults. Installing it is like Mint or Ubuntu. But it uses optimized repos according to your available CPU instruction set, and optimized proton and wine (their own). Games just work (even more so than they already do generally), and are faster. Programs are faster (where it matters). But you don't need to do anything for that, it's just there by default.

Yes, Assuming that renaming a community without creating a new one isn't possible.

The best way would be to just rename to "steamhardware", but losing everyone in the process is certainly not worth the rename for clarity.

I would personally suggest looking into CachyOS or Manjaro.

They can't sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) "just a PC". It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.

It's a misconception that is any "trouble". I'm using CachyOS, which is basically Arch but with additionally optimized repositories and settings. You just install it an use it, like Mint or Ubuntu. It just works, but it's also faster for performance related tasks (especially gaming, but also others), importantly and explicitly without any tinkering.

Quite the opposite, actually: there much less tinkering required to get gaming specific things to "just work", as the tweaks are all there by default. This includes running Windows programs often considered hard to run (through Wine).

I do happen to enjoy and want a rolling release. There's a new kernel released, and I can install it like a day later. New KDE comes out, update is there for me in a few hours. Software is generally up to date, which was such a refreshing experience as I'm used to running Debian server side. Oh what a contrast.

Tailscale is WireGuard under the hood, if you didn't know. It's an overlay network that uses WireGuard to make the actual connections, and has some very clever "stuff" to get the clients actually to connect, even if behind firewalls without needing port forwarding.

Using WireGuard directly basically just changes the app you use, which may or may not help with your issues. But the connecting technology is the exact same.

Valve and therefore Steam is still privately owned, never went public. No share holders demanding things surely is a major factor.

They can literally setup an instance themselves. By the time it is identified as such, the damage is basically done. Just make a new one. Or use one of the many instances not requiring approval. Or fill out the form with ai. They don't actually need an insane number of accounts for their subterfuge. Having just "some" and keeping them tied to conversational themes/topics seems sufficient?

And there's heroic, but both aren't the same thing as native platform support. Steam has game listings for games that are made for Linux and Mac. You install the official steam client and click "play". No other platform has that.

There are more or less convenient ways to run the games from gog, epic, Amazon, ... on Linux. But none of them have official support or even carry any native games at all.

I've stopped caring about physical sports and their broadcast literal decades ago. I only occasionally watch relatively niche sports during the Olympics (climbing for example), but that's it.

What I do watch is eSports. More exciting than watching a bunch of people run over a field repeatedly, trying to get a ball into a things or whatever.