A lot of people will probably tell you that what you're asking for is an oxymoron. It's not, it sounds very cool, it just occupies a point on the spectrum that's likely to take a lot of work to keep in an arbitrary balance between rock solid and bleeding edge.
cyanarchy
Seconded, Alacritty has been great to me
Just ripped a friend's entire collection using cyanrip. Might be more powerful tools out there but I wanted something from the CLI.
I have 64GB as future proofing (ITX board, two slots, can't address any more). Normally I probably use 8 to 10 of those doing things like gaming and hoarding internet tabs like they're a nonrenewable resource. I actually managed to crash my machine with an out of memory condition compiling something a while back. I don't remember what and I'm sure it doesn't count as regular use but I installed ZRAM to prevent it from happening again.
I appreciate their "barely surviving the mines" shtick a lot better now that they're independent.
So what the hell is alt drag?
Just another old dude complaining that his interests and the internet spaces that discuss them has become more accessible in the last thirty years. This type of greybeard elitism got in my way when I was trying to learn and if I hadn't been self motivated to keep learning, that might have been the end of it. The biggest takeaway from this discussion is that Google is regressing in usefulness and that discord was always a bad place to store information.
Starfield also requires an SSD, a first for a modern triple-A PC game.
I recall the same being said about Cyberpunk 2077, and I'm not sure that was the first either.
Because Windows is known to be malicious spyware, and you should consider not tolerating it any longer.
I haven't used any of the arch install scripts but they seem to have regular problems. Doing it the usual way is a proper way to roll your own but it doesn't give you options. You have to know what you want, or you have to know where to find out what exists.
The guided installer is going to be important to a type of person we're going to see more and more of: power users that know what they want to do, but for whom the Linux ecosystem is a foreign and fractous entity what uses entirely unfamiliar nomenclature.