Ask Paul: December 29 (Premium)

Happy New Year to everyone! And welcome to the final installment of "Ask Paul" for 2017.
Overwatch
jimchamplin asks:
Do you play Overwatch on PC? If so how good are you?
I do not. My son does, however, and it is one of his favorite games by far (the others being Rocket League and PUBG). But he is a PC gamer primarily these days, and I'm an Xbox gamer.
"Real" Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi?
jimchamplin also asks:
Re: Windows 10 ARM builds. Is there any possibility of retail copies for Raspberry Pi?
In case it's not obvious what he's referring to, the version of Windows 10 that Microsoft provides for Raspberry Pi is not a mainstream OS with an interactive desktop, etc. Instead, this product---called Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi---is designed for embedded devices, or what we now call "Internet of Things" devices.

Or, as Microsoft says:

"Windows 10 IoT Core is a version of Windows 10 that is optimized for smaller devices with or without a display, and that runs on both ARM and x86/x64 devices. Windows 10 IoT Core utilizes the rich, extensible Universal Windows Platform (UWP) API for building great solutions."

The idea behind Windows 10 IoT Core (which runs on Raspberry Pi and several other IoT "board computers") is that developers can create an app that will be all that runs on that device, sort of like a kiosk. It's also aimed at the "maker," educational, and enthusiast markets.

What Jim is asking, then, is whether we'll ever see Windows 10 S or Windows 10 Home, or whatever, on Raspberry Pi. My gut says no: While the low-cost nature of these devices is appealing on a number of levels, they're not really good as general purpose computers, and even the version of Linux that the Raspberry Pi Foundation supplies, called Raspian, is pretty stripped down.

The latest hardware, the Raspberry Pi 3, has just 1 GB of RAM, which does meet the minimum requirements for mainstream Windows 10 versions. But come on, no one is running Windows 10 in 1 GB of RAM; 4 GB is a reasonable minimum. And I suspect that the Pi 3's Broadcom BCM2837 CPU is woefully inadequate as well.

Short version, no. I don't expect to see this.
Christmas gifts
Polycrastinator asks:
Did you get (or give) any really great Christmas gifts?
No. But that was by design.

I have worked for years---and I mean years---to remove gift-giving from the Christmas equation. I hate the stress that gift-buying entails, and I think it ruins the holidays for everyone.

So I worked on my friends, and my brother and sisters, who eventually came around to the notion that just spending time together is the best gift of all.

In past years, my wife and I have limited the amount of money we spent on each other to $100. But this year, we talked it over and decided to not give any gifts at all to each other. We spend a lot of time together, we go out a lot, and we travel a lot. We are much more interested in these experiences than in getting more things. And these are exper...