Fucking.

Eh, with a reasonably modern computer you can get to a desktop environment and browser done in a day.

https://youtu.be/8dIdYkwWg_g

Taken a little out of context, but still funny.

Absolutely. GOG has a much better license and distribution model, but it’s still a license.

That’s not true. You still only receive a license to play the game, you do not own it. Directly from GOG’s website:

We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

Practically this means you cannot resell your GOG installer in the way you could resell a physical book.

Two questions: are you still on Gentoo, and have you tried LFS?

Eh, it’s also much easier to slap a client-side detector on because you can use generic detection methods. When you’re doing it server-side, you have to rely a lot on statistical analysis and it’s all game specific.

In the end you can, of course, reduce it all to not shelling out money, but there is some nuance too.