I can’t speak for base/mid layers, but I wear merino wool socks at work (danish endurance, not 100% but a blend), in steel toe boots, and they last quite a while. Haven’t had any holes or even wearing thin, and I’m notoriously hard on socks and footwear.

Using the arrow keys to go to the entry and pressing shift+delete works for me

It’s showing me $28.74 to remove ads in Canada right now (maybe more than the 26.25 mentioned due to tax % difference)

Prism seems to be able to update entire modpacks, though I haven’t tried it myself. Used to be a hassle with mmc/polymc to do that.

I’ve been using chocolately when on Windows for automatically installing java (also prismlauncher, it’ll grab the temurin java package(s) for you during it). Not exactly the same as a Linux package manager, but it works well enough and has basically every app that I need to install.

I think modern games in general hold your hand too much. Some small level of hand holding/tutorial is fine, but so many take it way too far. I’ve gotten bored of a lot of games before they actually started because of that.