Linux was also the only way to make sure Valve was viable long term. Eventually Windows was going to have an Xbox store built in and would’ve basically been a monopoly on PC gaming, cutting out steam altogether. I think windows now sort of does have that, but it can’t compete with Steam quite yet.

Yeah, the flaw there is that money can flow into and out of the stock market basically instantly, so you always have to manage their expectations to make sure your price doesn’t crash.

I’ve got a whole bunch of free games on my epic account and I’ve never even bothered to try to figure out how to install them.

You can host a website on a lot less, even. But it entirely depends on what you’re hosting and the load. Basically anything can host a bunch of static pages, so if your site is just that, basically anything will do. You could probably even do a WordPress site with the right caching plugins and serve a reasonable amount of traffic. The first limit you’ll hit realistically is your uplink, not your webserver CPU.

Some stuff you want to have in your house though, like storage and stuff like home assistant.

Or wrote it in a different language and used Google Translate.

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