Plus queens are often dewinged so they don’t fly away.
Not dewinged. Beekeepers don’t go around pulling wings off of queens.
Some beekeepers will clip part of a queen’s wing, similar to how people with pet birds will sometimes clip a wing. This doesn’t hurt the queen just like it doesn’t hurt the bird.
That said, I don’t think it’s as common of a practice as it once was, as its benefits are pretty questionable (especially vs the risks). I expect when it happens, it’s new/hobby beekeepers who read about it in a book somewhere and don’t know any better.
I’ve heard, but have next to no proof, that in winter, drones are suffocated because they will eat the honey that they make instead of humans getting it.
That’s ridiculous. You’ve been lied to.
It’s true that drones die in winter, but it’s because the hive itself makes the decision to evict the drones - the workers force them out and then they starve, freeze, or are eaten by predators. This is true of wild colonies as well as managed ones, and is how the life cycle of the honey bee has evolved.
Humans have absolutely nothing to do with it.
I think this is the key thing.
If you’re always buying the newest GPU to play the latest tech- envelope-pushing AAA title that requires the latest greatest driver, then you’re probably not going to have a good time with gaming on Debian.
But some of us don’t care about those types of games, or maybe in some cases we do but are willing to wait a while to play a particular title (hello Patient Gamers). In that case Debian is a nice, rock solid gaming platform.
Anecdotally, I probably do 85+% of my gaming on Debian (the rest being my steam deck). And it works fine for me because of the types of games I play and/or how long I tend to wait before getting new titles (giving Debian time to catch up).
It’s definitely not for every gamer, but I don’t think it’s as unusable for gaming as people often suggest.