But the ai assumes itself infallible, at least it could ask…

What does your agricultural machine run on?

Piracy is not a “middle of the road” position. In our niche of the web, here, in the haven of the nerds reddit wasn’t nerdy enough for, piracy is a non-issue.

For a large amount of the population, it is still a criminal offense and in their minds treated as stealing (in parts ofc thanks to corporate propaganda), not as a logical answer to a consumer(and small creator)-hostile Intellectual Property Rights legal system.

At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.

They aren’t quite there yet, but at least you don’t need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.

I had additional issues due to technical problems with the motherboard. For most people it won’t be nearly as hard. […] If you follow the steps perfectly you shouldn’t have issues.

You just described the linux experience. In 99% of the time, Linux just works. For 1% of the things, you have to apply above methodology. How is that worse than keeping on using windows?