I actually love the fact that it DOESN’T have some tacky leet gamer design like nearly every other gaming laptop

It’s more complicated than that, VAC bans are tied to the version of game engine used. So a VAC ban in Counter Strike Source would have also banned you from TF2, DoDS, and HL2DM, and nothing else. This also means that VAC bans from CSGO don’t affect any other games (except CS2 which is technically the same game)

This isn’t true, you can google “lemmy ml” and lemmy.ml will show up in the results