> They posed no real risk to my single-user gaming machine and the fixes had an unacceptable performance burden IMHO. Where are you seeing a performance burden

> They posed no real risk to my single-user gaming machine and the fixes had an unacceptable performance burden IMHO. Where are you seeing a performance burden? The spectre/meltdown patches had no impact to game performance: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-meltdown-spectre-intel-amd,5457.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-melt...