It’s probably just not worth it. MS makes the vast, vast majority of thier money on Windows licenses from the corporate sector and OEMs. Any revenue “lost” to MAS is a rounding error on thier toilet paper budget for thier offices.

Both those posts on reddit are people being paranoid (especially the pchelp post, that user is self-admittedly ignorant), perhaps not wrongly, but it is open source and used frequently enough I’d imagine someone would have said something if there were issues.

Personally, I’ve used it probably 3-4x without any issues. Take that for what you will.

EDIT: Manual instructions are here if you wanna be really, really sure.

It’s getting up there in years but I’m running a Dell T5610 with 128GB RAM. Once I start my new job I might upgrade cause it’s having issues running my MC server.

I have no particular suggestions for the Pi, but for the x86 box I’d go headless Arch, install docker and go from there.

Also, I’d personally suggest switching to something that’s not Manjaro. Arch has an install script now which I really like, but there’s also distros like EndeavorOS that don’t have a history of letting thier SSL certs expire multiple times like Manjaro does…

A. Perhaps when people call out your bad logic you should reconsider your logic rather than going “They’re persecuting me!” Freedom to express your ideas is not freedom from having those ideas critiqued or debated, and in my experience a LOT of religious people equate the two.

B. Read the rules before posting, maybe? This community is for advertising communities you’ve already created.

C. If you do actually create said community and advertise here, be prepared to be downvoted to hell again.