As far as I know there has never been a steam-account-level ban reported from using it, though some people have been banned from individual online games like Rocket League due to anticheat.

If you haven’t checked out Victoria 2, I three-quarters-heartledly recommend it. The deep convoluted systems are actually really important (and really convoluted) in that one, and there’s a lot of cool emergent stuff from the simulation. It’s also incredibly messy and really shows its age, but it’ll make for some fun hours of play if you use the community patches.

No no, what I’m saying is that the active one is the original. The “wait” mode that pauses on menus is sort of a “easy mode” added in later ports because some found it too hard and wanted something more like a turn-based RPG. SNES era developers were magicians, not even the physical limits of the hardware could stop them.

The game is so well written that even as a half-illiterate child with no knowledge of English I could mostly understand what was going on on a horribly translated Portuguese romhack. Going back to it later when it came out on the DS blew my mind. To this day it’s the standard to which I compare other JRPGs, and among my favourite games on the SNES.

Does the original SNES version have the “active” battle system that the Steam version has?

I may be misremembering, but I think it was the “wait” mode that was implemented in the DS or PSX version.

Keeping it vague so as to not spoil anything, but the vast majority of those endings are pretty unimportant and only there for completionism and flavour. There’s only like 2 or 3 endings with actual story relevance, and it’s surprisingly quick to get the other ones after that.

For a Linux newcommer, I would recommend an extremely mainstream distro like Mint over some niche gaming one like Zorin, due to having way bigger user bases and online support material in case things go wrong. Everything you can do in one distro can be done in others. If you’re playing steam games, basically everything not native works out of the box with their Proton compatibility tool.

I also second Crit’s recommendation for Lutris, specially if you’re pirating. You can basically use cracked Windows repacks with that. I haven’t used Windows in over 10 years now, and over the past 3 or so I’ve basically not run into any compatibility problems for games.

But you may want to keep a small windows partition if you like playing League of Legends or other aggressively DRM-locked games.

Antimatter Dimensions, but it’s stupidly addictive. It’s the best one I’ve ever played. Only complaint is that, at times, it can actually require a lot of thought for an idle game.