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Yes. Valve (Steam) spent more than a decade building and refining a translation layer called Proton. Nearly 80% of the vast Steam library is now compatible with Linux to the point they are releasing actual Linux consoles (Steam Deck and Steam Machine).

For your regular PC, you can install a gaming-focused distribution like Bazzite to get everything sorted out automatically.

You didn't mention a reason, but why wouldn't you just switch to Firefox? It will give you back control of your own web experience and allow you to fiddle with everything you can imagine in the settings and/or about:config.

Or maybe try one of the any Chrome derivatives that may have less dark patterns like De-googled Chromium or even Brave?

That's usually how these things go. No one is going to everyone's house to remove their stoves, regardless of how accurate the claims of their dangers.

Instead, they abolish the sale of new gas stoves and, as the old ones stop working with age, eventually they disappear altogether.

I believe that's how there's still old buildings with an asbestos treatment or old water pipes made out of lead kind of all over the place. It was widespread at first, then the issues became known, then they were forbidden from being sold, and eventually the existing old ones are replaced as opportunity allows.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with tables when properly used for data.

The problem being described is that, in the early 00's, there was no easy way to make column layouts with CSS due to IE6 and CSS's own lack of good column handling rules, other than float: left and (later) display: inline-block. This led to most people in web development to produce their page layouts by stacking tables within tables within tables because the end result would visually work properly in every browser. This was, however, an awful way to produce semantic content not to mention the inherit accessibility issues.

Thankfully, by 2006, nearly everyone had already been exposed to the likes of CSS Zen Garden and learned how to workaround with CSS issues to make layout with block elements instead of tables within tables.

His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.

Because Byuu, who later went by "Near", tried to scrub as much personal information from the internet in the hopes of staying ahead of constant doxing attacks by an awful internet community called KiwiFarms. It didn't work. In the end, Near/Byuu committed suicide months ago to escape the constant harassment.

What were they thinking? That most people wouldn't know or understand the implications over centralizing all things to better collect information. For Google, they turned an old adage into becoming one of the wealthiest companies in the world with the full understanding that besides government regulations, nothing's stopping them.

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility." --Robin Morgan

Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts.

I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.