Obtaining a game digitally is not the same as a requirement to play it.

Only games I play that have mandatory internet access are mmos. Outside of that if it requires it I won’t play it. The community can get devs to change too as we did with Nightingale.

Start with Linux Mint and use Steam’s Proton or Lutris. I can run just about every game natively or using one of those without having to do too much work to play them.

CentOS

Normally they’d say this and then change it again. That’s pretty much how every “feature” they’ve added to their OS and it is becoming a little too bloaty.

Mint is easy to use too if you don’t want to fiddle around with various packages.