I think overall that piracy is good.
It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.
But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don’t know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?
I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.
I’m also on Linux, but haven’t found a game from my collection yet that doesn’t play (only destiny, but I’m happy I didn’t spend more time on it)
I’ve tried being a bit more strict with my own choices, like limiting to games I already have in my collection or downloaded. Or games that don’t have too much grind or dark patterns.
But it still leaves me with a huge choice.