I terms of installation they are actually a PC. Just load your favorite distro on a USB stick and install it as you would on a Desktop. For me Ubuntu is working great on an older Surface Go, including touch. The keyboard cover is highly recommended of course.

Being able to form armies that move as one is already a great improvement that could reduce a lot of managing late game. Same with reinforcements which will find their way to the front alone in Civ VII.

There’s a pretty good game as well on Steam called Nucleares. Very challenging but cool to be able to walk around the plant .

I find Phind.com quite useful as an IT person.

That would be great. It would mean that Asobo concentrate on the technical core of the game. 3rd party devs can then build on it. I am a great fan of the HPG H145 for example. There are nice missions already but the devs have to work with the limited tools they have today. The animations don’t look great. A better physics engine and more powerful animations could help make the missions look more life like.

It saves you a trip to the planet just to be instantly killed there. So it may be there to reduce frustration. Personally I would prefer if there were just hints about the level though, not rough numbers.