I guess not allowing flatpak wine to access anything that is not necessary is the easiest way to achieve it. No idea if it is also the most secure solution.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

Yeah, smoking from time to time is surely healthier than not smoking. /s

I have a HTPC which i use for watching stuff and playing games. I run Bazzite with Plasma Big Screen and launch games using Bottles and console emulators. Bottles, Lutris and most emulators have features for adding games to the system menu and they work just fine.

I use a gamepad (8BitDo Ultimate 2C) to control the PC and sometimes also a tiny keyboard for typing. It’s a bit rudimentary at times and took some time to get used to but it gets the job done without signing in to Steam or any other online service.

Mostly Qwant, occasionally ddg, mojeek and others, including my own instance of SearxNG (google doesn’t respond to it most of the time).

Thanks to enshittification of google, there is not much difference between it and other search engines so being unable to use it via alternative frontends doesn’t make that much of a dofferencd.

I should probably use searxng more often…

It’s not much of a loss because google search results are shit anyway.