I have 20 or so acres of woods behind me. Oak, 2 types of hickory, American beech, and black cherry.

It’s just dirt. These trees have thick ass canopies

Hate to be the bearer of bad news. Possums don’t eat ticks.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353264681_Are_Virginia_opossums_really_ecological_traps_for_ticks_Groundtruthing_laboratory_observations

An hour is less than a windows pc fresh install. After you download each driver for your mother board etc. Fedora was steam and the nvidia driver. It was like 3 commands.

I am a pc gamer but I don’t have a massive library. Chose punk, read dead, forza 5, doom, and the command and conquer package is what I mostly play. 0 issues with any of them and I didn’t have to tweak anything.

I haven’t tried vr yet, letting that one bake in but I’d like to try MS flight simulator or dcs with vr

Fedora kde takes like 5 min to set up and start downloading games on steam. Not sure why you think it’s not ready.