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The drama where he ended up ripping into the maintainer who's trying to block rust code from being added? :P

Context doesn't matter because ultimately it's directed at somebody and telling them to kill themselves. I don't think he actually wanted that to happen, but he said it. It doesn't make him a villain, but it's something that shouldn't happen.

single handedly making linux a viable gaming platform for the casual user

Well, not really single-handedly. Most of the work was done by open source communities, Valve's part was mostly in integrating it and normalizing it, making it easy for users and giving developers an incentive to support it. They did their part and I love them for it, but I'm also grateful for all the volunteer contributions to projects like wine and dxvk!

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including Alyx

Huh? Am I missing something? All of Valve's VR games show up as Windows only, running on proton. I think Deadlock is in the same boat, though maybe they'll add cross platform support before release.

I don't think arch does much to make commandline easier to use it understand - instead I'd say it aims to teach you how to use it, because it might be easier than you realize, but importantly it tries to tell you why. Instead of just giving you the command to run, the wiki explains various details of software, and the manual installation process tells you which components you need without forcing a specific choice. As a result, hopefully after using arch you'll know how your system works, how to tweak it, and how to fix issues - not necessarily by knowing how to fix each individual issue, but by understanding what parts of your system are responsible and where to look.

If anyone ever asks me

If people are actually asking, then sounds like yes, there is a need to have a speech prepared.

it also won't wake up from a month in sleep with an untouched battery the way a Switch does.

Any time I left my dock unplugged (after cleaning or whatever), next time I wanted to use the switch or joycons for something I found the battery drained :P

Not to say it isn't better, or even way better, but calling it untouched seems a bit too exaggerated.

paint anything bad more favouribly.

I disagree in this situation - it is being painted more favourably, but it's not bad. Their motivation may be self-interest, but I see it more as killing two birds with one stone. I will also note that Valve could provide official ad integration through steam APIs, but at least so far they chose not to.

There's many games out there, but only one Outer Wilds.

In general, almost everything you install with pacman will update when you do pacman -Syu (and restart, in case of kernel updates). The way packages work, all the files needed for a piece of software to function are installed from a package, and when you install a newer version, it removes all the files from the old version and puts in new ones. (Caveats apply to configuration files you can modify - those don't get replaced if you do)

So after you update some software through pacman, it should be in an entirely clean state, just like if you just installed it. The main caveats apply to things like flatpak, which manage its own packages, and software like Steam and Discord, which have an additional auto-updater for some things that's storing files separately.

I would recommend doing it manually - you can get a GUI diff tool (I like Meld), run it with both the normal file and pacnew, and merge every change from the pacnew into the main file.