Because 99% of the time, the simplest solution is the best one, and the simplest solution never involves blockchain in any capacity. In this case, the simplest solution involves money. Currency exists for a reason, whether you like it or not.

Also, for real-world use, not being able to alter information in the system is a bug, not a feature, because it prevents the correction of mistakes. And there will always be mistakes, because humans.

There are a few open-source games that appear to work already, yes, including supertuxcart and nethack. And someone will surely port Doom to it soon if they haven’t yet.

Not in the way you’re hoping for. Proton is a wine offshoot, which means it’s exclusive to x86 and x86_64 arches. You could perhaps get it to run by installing qemu and setting it up to run x86_64 binaries, but even if that worked you’d likely end up with single-digit FPS in most games.

Based on what Gentoo currently has keyworded, you should be able to get a solid useful desktop—KDE or Gnome (or sway, if that’s your preference), Firefox, Libreoffice, Gimp, VLC, and other popular basics—but I wouldn’t expect games or other proprietary software for a while yet, if ever.

Huh. Thought they did. Maybe I’m wrong—it isn’t my distro of choice, after all.

Yes, it runs Linux (you didn’t hink they were shipping it with Windows on it, did you?). Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo should all have support. I don’t know about Arch.

Of course it is (as long as it’s “tries to promote”, with no expectation it will always succeed). But no one’s interested because it won’t make as much money as the current outrage farming.