Linux needs an apple-like manufacturer (but in a good sense): good, marketable products with good support.

If we’re always relying for big current OEMs to offer linux option, they’re gonna hide it and never offer 1:1 support compared to windows.

I’m for some reason hoping for valve+some oem working together to offer a valid option to the current choices.

No. Ddr4 ram prices have been tripling this year.

I needed ddr4 ecc, but couldnt justify paying 3x the price that I paid last year.

Also wanted to buy ddr4 sodimm for my wife’s laptop, you guessed it, 3x the price.

Dunno how pale moon is doing nowadays, but forks either follow the bigger principles of the base project or wither into obscureness if the base project changes underlying technologies.