I have a similar story, I was planning on making homemade paper with my sister by blending up newspapers in our blender. Except, I was too stupid to figure out how to open the blender lid, which was held on with a suction, which is opened with a button. I eventually got it open by forcing the lid open by holding it upside down and forcing down with my left hand. The blade fell out and sliced my wrist open horizontally, at first I didn’t realize until I looked down and saw blood gushing onto the floor. I told my sister to help and get our grandma who lived on the property but in a different building. Eventually we got to the ER and they gave me a bandage, but refused to give me stitches without my mom being there (I don’t know why they did that it was stupid). Eventually my mom left work, she’s a nurse, and gave me liquid stitches. She said she didn’t do normal stitches is because I just barely missed an artery and it was exposed to the air, and she didn’t want to risk poking it with a needle. I do wish I had normal stitches done though because the wound kept opening when I went to school, causing the scar to get pretty big.

VAC bans are only for cheating in games, you shouldn’t get one. Can’t say the same about getting your account locked though, but Valve usually doesn’t do stuff like that

That’s what I was thinking reading this

Yeah maybe they can remove some of the engine limits too while they’re at it, like they did with the Half-Life anniversary update

I don’t know, Vulkan is amazing. Unless the game is solely bottlenecked by processing stuff, it should help.

Finally, tf2 had always ran so terrible

It should support DLSS unless you have an older video card, which the drivers don’t work well with. I heard the newer Nvidia cards work better though. Of course, is all up to you whether you like it or not, so just try out Linux and see. If you don’t like it just reinstall Windows. Make a recovery Windows USB beforehand though, makes it easier to reinstall.