Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Apparently you can install Linux on the T2 chiped apple computers, just not by default.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/apple-t2-chip-cant-boot-linux
On the price issue, a large factor into the cost is die size. The RTX 2080 Ti coming up 775mm Sq. vs 471mm Sq. of the 1080 Ti. Which is approximately 60% larger, I could not find the die size of the 2080 (in a very quick search, didnt try to hard) but it safe to assume it is larger as well...
Then you didn't have something configured correctly. I have beaten RotTR, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: well over 1000 hours of War Thunder, Company of Heroes 2, Pillars of Eternity, about half my Steam library is linux native. I have even played Battlefield 1 in wine with DXVK online. Its not at...