verdigris

Which games/mods are you talking about? It's very rare for mods to not work if the game works, you might just need to find an alternate application somewhere in the chain

It's gonna be way less hassle to just use Linux. The gaming situation is so vastly improved from 6 or so years ago, and the vast majority of games just work, with a large amount of the rest only needing minor tweaks.

The big exceptions are in competitive gaming, and even there it's pretty much limited to proprietary & intrusive anti-cheats that I wouldn't have installed on my Windows computer anyway; Riot's Vanguard and FACEIT are probably the two big ones. Also Fortnite -- even though EasyAntiCheat does work fine with Linux, Epic has chosen to explicitly not support it. If you do play one of those few games -- or use other proprietary software like the Adobe suite that also won't work -- a dual boot should be fine, it only takes maybe two minutes to swap over and unless you have two beefy GPUs you'll be limited in a KVM setup.

We know because no one else is doing it.

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.

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.

Brother. Mozilla is the only browser company letting you keep those things, so you're not "moving" anywhere. And every feature they've announced is not targeted at you; your (and my) customized setup where we never see an ad and leave minimal trace is still fully supported. The PPA is designed to improve the state of Web advertising as a whole, and improve the situation for the normal user who is basically leaving a rich personal history on every site they visit.

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.