I never said the shortest route. a plane flying “in a straight line west to east” would show up as as a curve on the map was all I was trying to convey. It’s possible this plane’s bearing doesn’t drastically change throughout this flight. “Straight lines” get real messy when you convert a sphere into a 2d projection for maps.

Then a further addition that there are other reasons to not fly in a direct straight line anyway. “Shortest route direct A to B” is an ideal condition, and the world is an always an ideal place.

If you do a search for “map of united states latitudes” you can see that the latitudes across the US are curved in this exact orientation.

There might be further reasons that it’s not a direct A to B, like wind patterns or weather etc, but it’s mostly just that lines of latitude (which are straight east/west lines) are not perfectly straight lines on most map projections.

You may not agree, but some people actually like the platform integration features that Galaxy and Steam and the like provide. Cloud sync and achievements and things that you may not care about are important to other people.

And then there’s just the whole “They said they would, and this is not very reassuring about their commitment to Linux users.”

I have an ultrawide with a 16:9 on either side mounted portrait. I get the vertical space and the ultrawide.