Wireguard

This is one of those things when you pretend like the argument is about something that no one could disagree with instead of the actual issues to downplay everything.

I can’t speak for the standard situation but for BG3 it isn’t “cracked” it ist does not contain DRM. AFAIK this is true for BG3 across all sources for purchasing. You should be fine to play with him.

Rustdesk

It seems like you are assigning your own beliefs and values on things and then claiming that people who don’t share them are at a deficit. AKA a dumbass.

He probably had router access.

Yes speed decreases are typical. Pick what’s more important to you the speed or using the vpn.

That’s basically just having kids but with less steps.

If I had to guess you probably live in a big city in the center. This means when you activate “Show bluetooth devices without names” in the developer settings of your android 13 phone, there appear loads of devices. You probably have no clue what they are because none of them are your devices so why would you know what they are?

When in doubt grep the contents of every file and grab a beer while you wait.

sudo grep -rnw “libpango-1.0.so.0 pango-1.24.0_1” /

I have used Linux for around 10 years. My daily driver has changed a couple times but I always go back to Mint. I think its better than Ubuntu personally. Its what I always recommend and I’ve been a sys admin for 5 years and dealt with production environments across all the core distros.

All that said it really depends on what programs you are using. Some have alternatives sure but sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes you will have a program that just pins you to Windows until you don’t need it anymore.

You should list out what things you use that you need. Take some recommendations on their alternatives or how to set them up in Linux and see if it sounds like it’d work for you.