I specifically got one which can run valetudo and it works great for over two years now. Without sending images of my flat to china or the us

If I understand correctly, it is 2billion years old, but 50million years ago it merged with another star, making it more massive and thereby more bright an visible from earth. Fun fact: Due to it beeing a yellow supergiant it will turn red in a couple of thousand years and then die quiet soon.

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-old-is-the-north-star-the-answer-could-change-our-maps-of-the-cosmos/

By default only the officially supported games are listed. If a game is not supported this does not in.any way mean that it will not work. In my experience everything except some anticheat infested games will not work. For some rare games some tinkering is necessary, yiucan typically find infos here in the protondb

To make all games visible, go to your settings then go to the “Compatibility” settings, then locate the “Steam Play” section. Toggle on the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles,” choose the latest Proton version from the dropdown menu, click “OK,” and restart Steam.

I wrote my PhD Thesis with it two years ago and already back then it was a breeze. Compiling a 250 pages document in more or less real time is a game changer and I couldn't find any major shortcomming over latex appart from some minor bug here and there yet. 10/10 would recommend

Nice, I have the exact same one. It is true it takes about 1h and a bit of command line knowledge to do it, so definitely not for everyone.

Yeah, that dude is kind of a dick but on the other hand dealing with bugs in closed source software of big corporations is an even worse experience xD