Yeah I'm one of those weirdos who like to rewatch old stuff. You've made a lot of good jokes and it was fun.

Should you consider Linux, AMD graphics cards work very well with just the standard open source drives (no installation needed on most distros) are very good. AMD has been rather friendly to the open source community.

I was honestly never the biggest quake fan either, it's a great speedrunning game once you memorize everything but casually it's kinda a slog compared to doom and even later fps's, it's paced more similarly to the later half life or unreal but without the cool level design, items, and story to back it up. Personally even in multiplayer UT and then later TFC and UT2k4 imho were just far better games. (also that doom mod with the gore reminds me a LOT of how UT2k4's gibs system works, including the literal gore explosions if you turn gibs all the way up..)