Sorry ,but have you basic understanding about software? Vulnerabilities is part of the experience, especially for such complex ones.
https://freesmlauncher.org/ or follow https://rentry.co/Prism4Free
Maybe memoria but I don't think it support e2ee. However it is a self-hosted solution which is more private than a unecrypted SaaS with tons of telemetry.
Only 25 hours but I have bought the game in last quarter of 2025 because I wanted to resist the potential addiction
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634
https://distrosea.com/
Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or "L'Affaire du 8 décembre" in french.
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You forgot that french juges have used the facts that people installed Linux, Signal, /e/OS and GrapheneOS has evidence to charge them!
I think they were leftists activists charged for eco-terrorism but I don't remember all the details but you should take a look. La Quadrature du Net has done some blogging and court things over this events of dark times.
Immich and ente are the best alternatives in my opinion. PhotoPrism is another great one worth mentioning
I never tried CachyOS but I know it's popular.
Well if you're daily driving Kubuntu and wants an Arch-based distro go for it, CachyOS is really popular these days.
I think it made sense for Valve to go with Arch for a custom Hardware with console-like experience cuz they can tweak it and optimize it in depth but for a desktop PC you won't have big difference from a gaming perspective.
I'm not 100% sure about this but I think you could copy/backup the file that create all the non-steam link and metadata if you make the switch to another distro. But you'll have to do some research I guess.
Doesn't change the fact that you will have a great experience from any of these distro when it comes to gaming. Most of the changes in UX come from the Desktop Environment (KDE Plasma, GNOME, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc...). Other difference are packages availablility but beside Steam which is on most distro package you will probably use Flatpaks anyway. Also you should be able to swap distro without loosing files and games.
So beside some minor changes you won't notice much else. If it's your first time on Linux I would suggest you Bazzite (or Mint).
Nobara isn't Arch-based but Fedora-based like bazzite. And Glorious Eggroll isn't behind Proton but a popular fork of it (he does contribute to main Proton from Valve too I think)
Honestly every distro will do the work and you won't find your perfect distro on the first hop, you probably never will. Just pick one that have good track record, a big userbase for help on forums if something goes wrong.
Not a fork but a similar app that is supported is OuterTune
It's the licence used for the code I guess.
You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected.
Have you ever been on a cash based society, banknotes don't do bank - user - seller - bank route, sometimes it might happen okay but it's not the norm, these are global, not precise tracking.
This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That infomation will practically never be used to you advantage.
I agree on this, but cash have still stronger anonymity and privacy than most electronic payment methods. That's why they want cash to disapear in favor of CBDCs and banking cards. That's also why corrupted european deputee have big bags of cash at home lol.
VPS and email are highly used in professionnal environment not only in hobbies. There is also AI where you can pay per tokens but I don't really use that. I have even found a local phone carrier that have added Lightning Network and Bitcoin onchain for payment recently.
I live in a country where the currency holds strong even against US petrodollar. Where bank transfers have no additionnal cost (with the exception of international ones) and where cash is still used, so yes here bitcoin is considered more a store of value investment, despite mutiple merchants accepting it as a medium of exchanges. And crypto is more on the gambling side anyways.
However in countries like Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Vietnam, India, Venezuela, etc... people understand that the monopole of their government over money is not necesserly a good thing in their current situation. Use adoption is much stronger in the global south than the north. We also saw during recent protest in France people asking other to move out from the banks and store cash and Bitcoin to destabilize their corrupted system.
I would also like to remind people that without Bitcoin, Sci-Hub and probably WikiLeaks would be dead as both got banned by payment processor. So that is a strong indactor of how useful they can be. Also a non-monetray interesting use is OpenTimeStamps and the guatemala's election of 2023 that takes benefits from the immuability nature of blocks produced by the consensus. Or also the mining facilities that reduce the price of the electricity bill of nearby citizen, or help renewable energy to sell when there is no demands or simply balanced the electricty grids. But one that I am really excited about is the ones that clear methane from the atmosphere to turn it into bitcoins and make it actual economically viable. It's not all black or white, we have to see uses outside our comfort zone :D
https://hydralauncher.gg/ has a native Linux client. I never tried it and haven't pirated a game in a decade so I cannot share any experience. But my guess would be that if the game runs on Proton or Wine, the cracked version should to.