*Chandran Nair is the founder and CEO of the Global Institute for Tomorrow. He is the author of “Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World” (Penguin Random House, 2022). *
Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google’s products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won’t even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.
We are not in want of such solutions, Lutris and other existing solutions are capable of making game-specific environments already. The main problem is having enough volunteers to painstakingly run, test and submit the exact dependency parameters for each game that makes it run correctly. Same will be the issue even if we shift to Nix or anything else. The problem is manpower scarcity, not lack of tech.
Update: tried with a few repacks. Both Dodi and Fitgirl setups fail during installation for some reason with Proton. Running them with Wine works fine.