I personally run all my games in Bottles (flatpak) with sandboxing on. Even if a game is available for Linux I still run the Windows version inside Bottles just so it's slightly safer.
Thank you so much. I didn't know about this and I just assumed that was a federation error or something like that. I never would've thought that it was because of my settings 🫠
Depending on the DE you use, there's a chance that theres something to manage VPN connections from the network manager, so you dont have to use the actual protonvpn app and still can use their servers
Haven't seen anyone link this here so I'll link it myself
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html
Some things are outdated, like how you had to give others your phone number (although it's still necessary for signup) but most of these still hold up