The problem is, for the current Arc achitecture (DG2), the officially supported driver is the old i915. Xe will always be ‘experimental’ and it won’t have media encoding capabilities because Intel said it’s “too hard to implement for DG2”. It’s better to wait for the Battlemage / DG3 graphics cards so you can use better Xe driver that can also handle media encoding and decoding.

As for the raw performance on the i915. It’s terrible. Most of the games that I was testing work better on my RX 6600 than Arc A750. The only positive thing I can tell about this card is that it performed really well in terms of stability on Wayland, and a really great video encoding efficiency.

Both should be possible. I am using the psuedo 2FA method. First I type the PIN and after that I confirm with YubiKey.

It is, I have it set up on my laptop. It’s a bit finicky in how it works and it’s not easy to setup, but it is possible.

I really don’t know what you are talking about. I’m using it on Linux and it runs great. Comparing Signal to Discord, as both are electron apps, Discord is pure shit, Signal works really well. It takes a couple seconds to load but it’s still faster than Discord for me.

I would prefer if it would use other cross-platform framework like Flutter or Qt, but you can’t have everything. It’s better to have electron app, than don’t havy any.

I wouldn’t use Proton to play this game as it had more problems on my machine than native Linux version. Try using Steam Linux Runtime in Steam’s compatibility tab.