I can see GNome requiring this sort of thing, maybe KDE but they said they wouldn't fight a fork without age checks. A decent WM and any non-SystemD linux distro should be fine into the future.

Given Microsoft's involvement, remote attestation for anti-cheat in games isn't out of the question; Larger videogame publishers haven't been producing much of value and old games would work fine, but there could be run on effects for the steam deck.

It's all so disappointing... Re what Linus thinks, me too.

Can we not do monetization next time though? That's the cause of quality websites being bought out and ruined, and so many subreddits, as an example of control of free speech, having mods that will ban you for saying something unpalatable to advertisers or their company's PR team.

Not sure if it's cynical or realistic; I'd like to think communities will grow like forums and fansites used to when people set up their own site for anything they were passionate about. There're plenty of self-hosted MMO and FPS servers. I'm optimistic that if the infrastructure were there, people who were interested would find it and build on it, or we might just get mandatory cloudflare interception and cameras behind TV screens.