I’d gotten the email to order one, but I was out of the country…

Steam support said they couldn’t delay shipment or give me 2 extra days to order so I’d be back when it was delivered…

So I got kicked all the way to the end of the waitlist Kinda killed my excitement, now

They’ve been bolting on more complex use cases, but keeping packaging simplistic was their stated goal 20 years ago

It’s not a bad thing, but missing modules for the running kernel on updates is one edge case new users might not expect

Arch is just the most popular one where that would happen. Most distros don’t have that issue; it’s an artifact of the simplistic packaging that Arch uses.

I don’t happen to know how Gentoo handles it, though

I’d guess Arch or a derivative user?

20% pre-tax total is the norm in the US.

They’re adding extra on top there