It's impressive that you mentioned one of my concerns not reading the body or my comment! Happy to hear that star citizen works well with enough work!

I play both, unfortunately, even if BYOND works well on linux, I'm probably not going to be able to play it (old article but the attack hasn't ended yet)

I think what you saw was the usb getting flashed (like how you make an installable drive), rebooting to bios and flashing the bios from the usb. That's how I did it anyway.

Helping friends and family troubleshoot is something I would still have to do. I always assumed that I would be able to fix any mistakes quickly enough with a live boot usb but having a working windows install to fall back on is a good idea.

Also, you can flash BIOS via an OS? I thought it could only be done from within the BIOS?

I made a comment with everything I am not 100% sure will work. Summarised here: Is there somewhere like protondb I can check to see how well windows only software works through wine, and how well does BYOND and Star Citizen work in linux (I know they do work, but have no idea how well).

Update: I've looked through (almost) everything on my PC and my main concerns are:

• There are some games I play that work well on linux (marked playable on deck) but have external utilities that I refuse to play it without, is there somewhere like protonDB I can check to see how well it runs through wine (and how to set it up with wine? I'm not very experienced with it)
• For those who play SS13, how well the new BYOND update works with linux, I've seen it working on steam deck but I don't know how buggy it is.
• How well star citizen works?

People are buying it because they love Nintendo games like you said. It's also because most people don't know enough to emulate/are scared off by anti piracy laws.

Another reason is that people are impatient, if the price dropped I would be tempted to buy one, especially if they also announce a new 3d mario (odyssey is one of my favourite games of all time). I'd want to play it now and not wait for the switch 2 to be hacked.

A lot of people who know how to emulate also would rather buy original hardware because playing on it is just better (I'm the same, if the joycons didn't drift, I probably wouldn't emulate my switch 1 games on my deck)

I thought they went independent after having their independence taken by fandom?

Not PTB or YDI. If I was a mod and saw that comment I would be torn between you being discriminatory and being unfamiliar with parts of English (it can be strange sometimes). I would have probably messaged you to clarify what you meant but the mod was being completely rational.

I have a 6700xt and 5700x and my pc can do vr and play star citizen, they are the most demanding things I do on my pc, why should I spend almost £1000 to get a 5070 or 9070 and an am5 board+processor?

Considering the game is coming to consoles this is probably just a first attempt so they can polish it for the console launch.