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Not sure if links are allowed but I think Real Science on YT has some pretty good information on GMO mosquitoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrIS7mia36k

I bought some GNT back around 2016-17 because I thought it was a cool concept. Held it for a few months, years maybe? I can't recall for certain. I do recall Brass Golem getting released which was supposed to be a big deal and I never saw anything change. So I sold my GNT and looking at the primer, I still don't see much of a change from a few years ago.

Mined some ETH at the same time and it is doing much better.

Not for me personally, but I have seen a lot of kickback from some people on other forums. Although that could just be the audience. But I honestly think that if Proton gets 80-90% of the work done for devs most probably won't bother trying to make a native port, but I also go back and forth part of me likes to think that if there is a strong non-windows or macOS alternative companies will pay more attention to it.

I cannot speak to VR stuff specifically, I have heard of some issues with VR from lurking on other forums but I have no personal experience with them.

As for performance implications in my experience it tends to vary. Some games running on Proton run better than the GNU/Linux native ports and their Windows alternatives. Sometimes the native ports are better when compared to ones using Proton but for someone who is a "casual" I have not seen any noticeable performance difference. Of course this might not be the case if you are running on cutting edge hardware and playing the latest games.

Proton is the reason I moved from a Windows + MacOS machine to GNU/Linux full time. I understand the concern that some hardcore enthusiasts might have about it making devs lazy when it comes to developing native ports but to be honest I don't care. I am just glad to have a simple method of gaming on GNU/Linux. Proton plus Lutris and the slew other tools that have come out in recent years has made the transition to GNU/Linux very easy and has opened the door for many who were curious but scared of the learning curb.

I think the point may have been that nano is a safe assumption to be on most any GNU/Linux machine where as gedit might not be and that nano has all of the commands listed on the screen for quick reference.

For example when I was taking my sysadmin class we used CENTOS which did not have gedit since it did not have a GUI. We used VI instead, but I learned nano was good for simple fixes and I did not have to google the method of saving and exiting.

UBPorts, technically it is Ubuntu and not Debian, but Ubuntu is based on Debian. https://ubports.com/