Once the RTS is done they'll fork the engine to make Grim Dawn 2.

If they have any money left... RTS games aren't exactly a safe bet these days.

This is the reason i have a hard time recommending Fedora to new users, they can't even play youtube videos until they've pulled in rpmfusion and ffmpeg.

So a better scheduler for gaming distros

CachyOS is not a gaming distro, it is a performance distro, and this is from the mouth of its own developers. Everybody thinks their scheduler is the best - there's probably a meme about it somewhere, you'd probably get more aggressive scheduling with gamemode than regular cachy because gamemode expects you to be playing a game when you use it... and fyi gamemode is used by default in applications like lutris.

SteamOS is a desktop distribution now, that means full compatibility - at least once they start supporting nvidia. Maybe when they supported only the steam deck they could afford some targeted optimizations, but the more systems start running SteamOS the wider the target will have to become.

CachyOS is most definitely not "as close as it gets" to SteamOS. Cachy is performance driven whereas SteamOs much like Bazzite is compatibility driven. Valve's main goal is for their distribution to run on everything, performance is a low priority.

better scheduler

That's not a thing, the words you're looking for are "scheduler optimized for gaming at the cost of performance in other domains like power consumption", you also don't need it because common programs like gamemode already do this.

I didn't get it either till i read your comment... for those still in the dark it's about
::: spoiler our politicians reading our chats. :::

It's typically not a good idea to install a DE that is not supported by your distribution, Mint just repackages upstream gnome - is it ubuntu's vanilla gnome or debian's btw? Either way you're just ending up with an old ass GNOME package that's untested on your distro.

If you're interested in GNOME get a distro that ships it and supports it, which is pretty much all of them minus Mint.

There's like dozens of ways to open a lock without the proper key, it's probably not the best comparison...

Pretty much every platform is both, except linux maybe.

Not supporting it forces all other developers to spend their time integrating their own client side decorations just so users can move/close a window in someone else's desktop environment. (example: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408#%3A%7E%3Atext=Client-side+window+decorations)

This kind of things is handled directly at an engine or toolkit level - so no your average developer won't give a fuck. And for those that are reinventing the wheel there's libdecor (official gnome support btw) which your factorio developer is using.

The change is because of the shift to streaming, people can watch the shows whenever they want so things like status quo and always being on air are less important than having a narrative and strong episodes. Yes labor protections and the rest are important but even these days plenty of shows like soaps manage 20+ episodes - the difference is that they're aimed at a tv audience.

Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me

They might not be getting money from you, but they're getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)... Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.

Just like every project, you engage with it only as much as you want to. You can just use the arch install script, update pacman every couple of weeks and stop there.