if you’re in Australia ignore all VPN advice. Companies can only come after you for the cost of a single copy of whatever you pirate making it functionally legal here.
Torrents are your best bet for now because they are super easy.
Usenet is a paid service, absolutely worth it but you’re paying for at least 2 different services to make it work and setting up a whole bunch of software. Just steer clear of the Arr suite until torrents fail you (and they will)
multiple proton compatibility layers eat up system resources real quick and last time I attempted it they kept eating until everything was chugging at frames per minute.
Linux also does this thing called minimize on focus loss that is horrid for this (and the canned fix doesn’t work for me so don’t bother, maybe it’s a PopOS specific thing) also alt-tabing doesn’t see game clients anyway only the game launcher so that little piece of muscle memory from the past 2 decades can put you in a situation or two.
Also the preview/switching tool isn’t available, which wouldn’t be a deal breaker if alt-tabbing worked properly.
Forgive me Elon for I have sinned