Strange. We must be living in different worlds then. And I guess that statement is closer to the truth than you might be able to understand.
I can view news from different national and international sources. Of course we also have a strong monopoly here but that does not contain everything. The news is presented from different viewpoints depending on source?
Hey man whatever floats your boat. I'm not even from the US and the world is watching this unfold aghast how much you would take until other things happen. But they did a good job on you to still take it.
I'm not 100% on this but it just upgrades to the next release which would be a dist upgrade on Debian I think. Too far away from that currently so apologies if incorrect.
The fact remained, it broke my setup several times, which Debian based distros never did. But I am based to Debian anyway (but for good reason as the package management is the best / working it in data centers for decades - but let's not go into that).
A fact that is often missed is also the game state. Be it saved games or a game in standby, I can just take it with me. Of course cloud save tries to do this but does not succeed fully and (worse) locks it behind a subscription.
So whether I move to another room or go on vacation, the switch is an easy decision to take with me, making it a win there.
Well at first you logged in and had no idea what to do. There were companies putting their proprietary frontend first (AOL, compuserve etc) and also game some starting help. Then bigger resources arose and (for me) the awareness the layer in between is unnecessary.
To be honest, all the stuff you said is still there but it's more niche than the corporate or big known offers.
E. G. You can host something wild and 'nobody' really knows it exists.
I think you underestimate the creativity and power of these people.
It's exactly like ww2. People just didn't want to see it. It will come out at some point. I am certain the USA is already using German KZ methods.