Thank you for working on this and for sharing with everyone!

Perhaps a passthrough to a VM running Windows would work? Though that’s probably a lot of work unless you already use one.

Not everybody subscribes every single Linux community

Well then those people must be made to understand our peaceful ways… by force!

I’d recommend getting a good quality Bluetooth adapter known to work well in Linux. Even a decent one shouldn’t be expensive. Avoid combo BT/wifi sticks.

A VM would normally work if USB passthrough is properly configured. That said, on operations just like that, I normally just boot to my small Windows partition that I keep around for just such an occasion.

Right, agreed. I basically just said that last part to someone else.

The problem with seeing danger in every shadow is that you’ll never feel safe is safe enough. There is only so much a person can do to protect themselves, but there comes a point where you’ve made everything so inconvenient for the sake of security that you can’t just live your life. Take reasonable steps and don’t worry beyond that.

Perfect security is impossible. It’s always a trade off between convenience and assurance. Can you be 100% certain that the official source of software hasn’t been compromised? Remember CCleaner for Windows? It was distributing malware at one point.

I cannot purchase certain games any longer, for instance Outrun 2006. A downloaded copy is the only reasonable option. Purchasing a used copy doesn’t benefit the rights holder, so I don’t bother.

Take reasonable steps to limit any access the program would have - scan files, use a separate limited-rights user, a sandbox, etc. - and live your life.

So then you should know how to scan for viruses before you execute anything.

Your argument is that torrents = viruses, which is also wrong.

What viruses do you think you’re going to catch on a Linux host? Nobody is packing Linux viruses into torrents so they might affect the < 1% of people who download it.

I mostly pay for games, but this is a really dumb take.

the fact that I can play my favourite games, with my favourite hardware … is just kind of wrinkling my brain.

You’re finally streets ahead

Your arrival back home was foretold in the man files. All is as it should be.

Well it’s high time Wendy’s switched to a Linux distro!