As others have said I doubt you will see a difference but I can attest to arch working just fine for gaming. Between steam and Lutris I haven’t run into any real issues.

So if you’re wanting to try arch go for it with confidence that your gaming experience likely won’t be impacted.

I have done 3 and 4, and I definitely prefer the air gradient, it is a nice sleek little box that is flashable with esphome making it tie directly into HASS. Will be getting more of them in the near future.

Hah was super excited to watch this, we have the mini version for storing drinks/frozen snacks in, they also make a microwave so we got it to match. They are pretty mediocre but they work and look great! I wouldn’t advise using them as your primary appliances though lol.

Python is pretty easy to pickup and super popular so there are tons of guides and libraries to help get the job done. It does have a library called PyGame but honestly it is not super powerful, however there is a FOSS engine called Godot that uses what they call gdscript, which is very similar to Python.

Was using Relay on android for the past like 10 years.

Not sure where they host but AWS is currently in the middle of a pretty big outage so it could be related.