I've never used fractional scaling but it's obvious you don't understand that it's not about resolution but about screen size+resolution. On small displays with big resulutions like modern laptops a fractional scaling is absolutely essential unless you want to squint your eyes even with 20/20 vision.
It would. At least we've go Photopea which can cover most needs. Probably still not a viable alternative for professionals... depending on what you need to do.
Yes, caching was disabled. Done again in reverse order, no time for the USB stick to cool down as I've popped it right into another device when it finished on the one before. And yes, the same USB stick I've tested with before.
No it did not get warm at all because it was barely doing anything. But so that I'm fair I've borrowed different USB 3.2 Gen1 drive and tested also with my Fedora Laptop.
single 4.4GB video file
Zen1 based Windows PC - 2min 10s (could unmount right after progress finished)
Zen4 based Fedora41 laptop - 3min 1s (progress finished within 1min but then took 2min to unmount)
Zen3 based Fedora41 PC - 5min 16s (progress finished within 20s but took almost 5min to unmount)
Arrow in my head, arrow in my head, arrow has flew right trough my head, arrow that caused me this great pain, arrow that ruined my day!...