Dark Void...man what a cool game that just doesn't turn into literally anything halfway through. There's probably some kind of licensing issue that's leading to the delisting. I'm not even sure this isn't the first time its happened.
Flatfire
It's quite good. It helps a lot with making minute adjustments to aim that the control sticks can't quite manage without dropping sensitivity substantially.
The controller has gyro, and games like Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West do make use of it. There are others as well, but I'm not familiar enough with the library to recall specifics
If your only intention is to use the card for encoding, I recommend picking up an A380 instead. The A770 is a surprisingly performant gaming card for newer titles, but all of the available ARC cards have the same encoder.
Since the A380 is typically single slot, and fits within the 75W spec, you don't even need an extra power cable for it if you wanted it as a secondary card too.
Intel seemed to fall behind kinda hard w/ regards to CPU/Motherboard features until much later on. Supposing you aren't working with parts you already have, everything from 1st generation Ryzen onwards would have rebar support. They can be had very cheaply too, and work on any AM4 board.
You may also find a BIOS update allows some older chipsets to support rebar. It's a tad flaky depending on the manufacturer though.
The launcher is a fair point. Though for me at least, not having the spotlight-esque search hasn't been a problem. Appearance is an odd one, since the best part of Both Gnome and KDE is the wonderful flexibility in visual customizability. At the end of the day, I suppose I'd happily use either. Right now, I think Plasma's big features for me has to be window snapping and, once 6.0 releases, hopefully HDR support.
Maybe I'm missing some of the nuances between KDE and Gnome, but I've enjoyed the out of box experience with KDE far more than Gnome. That said, perhaps I've simply timed my switchover to Plasma such that I missed its teething pains. I say this as someone who used pretty much exclusively Gnome over the years.
What would you say sets Gnome apart?
Funny enough, I think the only time I've run into bootloader problems on a single drive, it ended up being Linux that broke my Windows boot. Typically Windows leaves my EFI partition well enough alone during updates.
That's pretty wild. I wonder if this is the work NK's animation houses have been performing since they no longer seem to produce internal animated shows like they used to.