For the hardware you get, it's overpriced. Go look at a prebuilt on Costco.com, for example. I see this on there right now at $1100:

Intel Core Ultra 5 225F - GeForce RTX 5060 - 32GB RAM - 1TB SSD

> Con: Since it's Linux-based I think online games with anti-cheat won't work, which seems like a significant downside in terms of utility.

EAC does work on Linux, but the dev has to set a feature flag per-game. Check the specific games you want to play.