I think so too actually if you’re looking to learn the basics.

Arch has very little actual “distribution” in its system (mostly pacman and mkinitcpio) and the former is a glorified tar with a database, and while it can run scripts, you’re expected to configure and set up everyone yourself using the upstream tools, and these usually come vanilla

I daily drove it for 15 years before I switched so it’s not like Arch is insured for that. But if you want to learn the basics of modern Linux it’s a good choice

Sometimes I think that I’d like to buy a new PC

then I remember that the majority of my hours played is on titles that don’t need a better PC

This isn’t the 90s / 2000s when games were scarce and you needed to upgrade to have something to play because new stuff was so much better. There are tons of very good games out there that will most likely run on everything.

Good games I played recently-ish:

• Balatro (casual 600 hours total)
• Noita (maybe 500 hours though you wouldn’t be able to tell because I suck)
• Guacamelee! (actually from my backlog)
• Animal Well
• Clover Pit
• Cuphead (another backlog title)
• Opus Magnum
• Baba is you

None of this means that no good game requires good hardware, but there are lots of good titles to enjoy on absolute potatoes

I hate the “digital” framing. Blu-Rays are digital media, there hasn’t been a medium carrying analog information that I know of since the laserdisc (yes, even audio CDs are digital)

What Sony wants is download-only titles, probably with some dumb online license check, but the latter could be had with physical discs as well, though it’d probably be an even worse look.

Keep in mind this is a statement by a manufacturer who’s trying to get his customers to sign long term contracts at current prices, so it’s in their interest to have people believe that the shortage continues.

Doesn’t mean it’s not possible, bit it should be read in that context