Beyond All Reason mentioned! I love that game, probably my favorite RTS. I love playing with friends against the AI. I have no real interest in online PvP because it stresses me out, but even without that there’s plenty of fun to be had with BAR. A must try for any fans of Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation, etc. and actually die RTS fans in general.

I haven’t tried them, so I cannot judge, but I’m just afraid I’ll run into issues when I will have to go off the beaten path. Inevitably I’ll have to do something hacky in order to fix some obscure software that the maintainers of the distro didn’t think of, and that’s currently already a big pain. But in such a strict setting it will be even more difficult. There will be no documentation and probably no guide or questions/answers on any forum either.

I’d be willing to try it for a productivity setup if I needed a reinstall, but not for my main PC because I just rely on too many hacks to get shit working.