Somehow I doubt you're giving them as much as Google is. I despise ads but the current market realities mean that developing and maintaining a browser engine is not feasible without corporation-level resources.
verdigris
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Then your browser will have no money to develop itself.
Then we continue to use anti-tracking extensions and block all ads. This is not for you.
There are two choices, Chrome/Chromium and Firefox. Firefox is the good one.
"somehow or other" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
You know the fediverse doesn't make its own browser right
This is why people do it... Because no one's willing to call them out and ask them to stop.
This is not really true in my experience. The vast majority of instructional videos and video essays are just repackaging a text resource, often just the list of references from Wikipedia. I think you're just falling for the veneer of professionalism that makes YouTubers popular, but remember it doesn't actually mean they know what they're talking about any more than a random forum poster. There are of course exceptions, but the glut of instructional videos is just because they're profitable, not because they're actually full of unique knowledge.
I think this is very deliberate. Having played at least a chunk of all 50 games, there are only two or three that I think would have benefitted greatly from more instructions or tutorialization. Figuring out how each game works and being surprised when you find a new way to use the very simple controls is part of the experience.
Based on this post I'm gonna say take it slow with a dual boot or live installation, if at all. You mention a lot of IMO fairly minor and subjective look and feel type criteria that indicate that you'll be quite bothered by minor changes. Using Linux is going to involve major changes. If you're not willing to leave your comfort zone and relearn a few things, might as well stay on Windows.
I'm pretty wary of corporate propaganda, but from the article this sounds like a pretty clear case of some greedy people taking advantage of Valve offering to cover all arbitration costs. Yes, they're doing this to cover their ass, but it's not a malicious move and I don't see how it could be interpreted as anti-consumer.
We know because no one else is doing it.