Hey, that’s totally fine. Nobody forces you to do anything. Run whatever you want on your PC. But don’t try to control what kind of software someone else is allowed to run on their system.

You don’t want corpos to control what you can do, that’s ok.

But you don’t get to control what others can do either.

I don’t play EAC games, so I don’t really have a stake in this.

There are plenty of reasons to run Linux apart from “I want complete and utter freedom” or something like that.

I would gently remind you that we have been giving kernel-level access to e.g. Nvidia for decades too.

It’s a trade-off, and there are still plenty of actual day-to-day practical benefits of running Linux beyond philosophy.