“Optical Media Bad”

I get the “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message on Proton

It’s been a bug for quite a while

OnlyOffice exists on Flatpak too

Sadly the only decent alternative is slowly going downhill

Girls’ Frontline 2 is basically a launcher you download on Steam, which then downloads the actual game

It’s on the “extra” repo

Recent Python 3.13 update broke the ProtonVPN client

Foobar unfortunately is closed source, which OP has mentioned as a requirement.

But agreed, it’s so good I use it on Linux through wine, despite many alternatives

You don’t need to run your window manager in Vulkan mode in order to play Vulkan games, in fact most common window managers use OpenGL, ex. Plasma (yes it has experimental Vulkan renderer but it crashes like crazy)

Yes

Which variant of it, if I may?

*In games running on Unreal Engine 5

Banking has luckily not affected me after degoogling, however Revolut (which I’ve used maybe once a year) is a notable exception where I can’t get it to work

Taxi - Bolt works, just make sure you have microG correctly set up

Phone - avoid Exynos/Mediatek devices as those are less likely to work correctly once degoogled or you change it’s ROM. I used to have an Xperia 5 III with LineageOS on it, everything worked on it including VoLTE and Sony’s stock camera apps.

Is it Valve to blame or the publisher for providing a different build of the game for Valve to test it?

1411 kbps before compression. FLACs can go as low as 200 kbps based on the content of a file

To my knowledge it’s lossless in CD quality only, in high-res modes it becomes lossy

I’m surprised how much data software running in user-space (at least on Windows) can query

I really hope Proton 10 will have some sort of Wayland support, even if it would be hidden behind an environmental variable

I mean there is an overlap between Linux users and those who play card games