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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 19 hours ago

Well, you do you. The Hypervisor releases are not Linux-compatible, since they depend on some Powershell-scripts for installation - which understandably fails under Linux. I also wouldn't touch this stuff even with a stick because of the severe risk of bad actors getting low level access on my PC - a cracked game is one thing, but this actually awful from a security perspective. (Although i read that the newest iteration does not even requi

I simply set up Syncthing to synchronize the directory which contains the Wine-Prefixes for games, making the synchronization of Saves something I do not have to think about; this works for any game regardless of source, including itch.io, GoG and other games. I do like Steams Cloud saves, but my solution works even without internet connection. Btrfs deduplication keeps the storage requirements low.

I keep "Backups" of a lot of Games I own legally, just to make sure I am not dependent on some external service if I want to play them. And if push comes to shove, I have about 20 TB highly compressed game installers and Console Isos, which will last me until the day i die.

I also ditched google a while ago, switching to Metager - I do not miss Google at all, i can understand you completely in that regard.