Similar for me. I went with PopOS this time, and it all just works. I’m thinking of switching to KDE Neon, just because I’m a KDE fan. One piece of advice I have is to have your home directory on it’s own so that if you do switch distros, you just install to the system drive and you don’t affect your data.
Specifically, he wanted to see if he could prove that Denuvo kills performance as much as many people believe.
This can be done without cracking it. There have been several games that have removed this DRM, as well as some who have added it post-publication. Benchmarks between versions should highlight the performance issues.
Also, fuck Denuvo.
Bill Gibson did Neuromancer. Steve Gibson did Spinrite. No relationship as far as I know.