The FS feature is great, it’s just cumbersome to use without a tool.

Snapper works well for a local backup like history both against botched updates and accidental deletion, but eats up the free space with the default settings.

Timeshift is an easy to use GUI but doesn’t support non-default partitions.

Also the quota support had a nasty side effect: freezing the whole system on snapshot deletion.

Could you tell us more specifically what do you want to use/play on this PC? (e.g browsing or productivity apps, or old games or the latest AAA titles)

A maximum budget would be very helpful.

Stormgate

It’s like 90% StarCraft 2 and 10% Warcraft 3. The competitive RTS part is promising but it didn’t show me anything new. Depending on the lore and campaign it may get more interesting, so far it’s neutral.

Millennia

It starts very similarly to Civ 6 with even more kinds of resources. The current version of the UI seemed confusing and the poor performance (on linux) stopped me from finishing the demo.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

Fallout New Vegas

Diablo 2: LoD

It is not necessary but still better to run both online discard and batched fstrim. from man:

Also, a device may ignore the TRIM command if the range is too small, so running a batch discard has a greater probability of actually discarding the blocks.

I would expext to see Frore’s cooling solution in gaming phones soon. And if they develop an even smaller version some mainstream phones could include them too.