ahornsirup

Well, HTC is Taiwanese so there really isn’t much of a story there.

If a position is legally untenable it’s a lawyer’s job to say so, though. We really don’t have enough context here.

Linux on Snapdragon isn’t in a great place either.

Your personal needs are not the concern

And with that attitude you’ve already lost.

I’ve never seen a shop have different prices for different payment methods in my life.

Is that an America thing?

None of that really matters for a home media server. Even the limited SATA ports, worst case you have to grab a cheap expansion card.

Power consumption is a much bigger concern, a purpose built NAS is much more efficient than a random old PC.

I don’t think anyone is claiming that Proton is perfect, but it certainly beats not being able to play most new-ish games. Which was the situation on Linux prior to Proton.