Haha, I was quite pleasantly surprised too, expecting at least someone hopping in for RHEL shitpost!

Or Gentoo! Or LFS! Or Slackware. Or Alpine. Or NixOS. I use Arch, by the way.

They would dismantle that and would do Hatred From Scratch.

I’m running Arch Linux on my MacBook Pro 2014, and it’s so snappy with SwayWM, I don’t see any need for any newer hardware.

The pirates I know personally all have dedicated PCs to gaming. So none of them care about any files being stolen, or things like that. That’s not many people, so I cannot say it’s some good statistics. But I believe it’s true for many. If I’d pirate games (I’m not a gamer, and I see no point in not buying, if I’m going to play just one game casually), I’d do the same. Since my work PC is plenty powerful, I’d rather use it, but switch disks to not allow Windows to see it. (However, they are encrypted anyway.)

On the other hand, if the games would work on Linux, I’d rather go this isolation way. Sounds just many times easier to me.

I’ve got a cheap old ten years old low-end laptop and didn’t know what to do about it. I installed Steam and played Half-Life 2 and Dota 2 (both aren’t very new, I know). They were very snappy. Also, I tried WarCraft 3 via Wine, and it was very good also. I didn’t know what else to test, but for the record Windows itself wasn’t very snappy with it.

If you’re not trolling and actually expecting some serious reply: no, it’s not a meme. It’s quite fast and playable. All the games that I tried were very playable.