Correct, I live in Europe and my region signed a new deal with Microsoft that was 43.5 % more expensive per year than previous agreement. The region is also considering to buy a program from Oracle for hundreds of millions of Euro.
But I really hope it is much better in other regions and cities.
They can’t, but that is not the purpose. If the chat control passes then all big services will be forced to leave EU or build in a backdoor. That will give them control over more than 90 % of the population and satisfies their goal. You and your friends are a rounding error. And if you would perform a crime, or are suspected of one, they can use the fact that you encrypt your messages against you.
Arc Raiders is playable in Linux, it got gold in protondb.
Path of Exile also got gold and PoE2 is platinum.
R.E.P.O is platinum.
That should make more than half of the top 10 games compatible in Linux. Unless it needs to be native for compatible, but I don’t have a problem with proton as long as it’s enough to select the latest proton version to be able to play.
I regret so much that I didn’t, I was planning to build a new PC now or in the beginning of next year. But with the current RAM prices I will stick to my 5 years old AMD 5600x. I will have to start playing games in my backlog if the framerate in new games becomes too low.