I only had one short stint in Windows when Path of Exile 2 freshly released, and then promptly went back to Linux a day or two later (and it ran faster there)

I heard all the stability concerns when I first started using it. That was in 2008. It’s been my main distro ever since. Apart from 2 or 3 major changes over the years (eg, the infamous /usr/lib migration) it’s been rock solid and very up to date

The only correct answer

They will, with only a month of severance. Their goal is to cut cost, these are layoffs

This. It’s like day and night. 100k in SF isn’t much at all