Regardless of the criticism on this article, you do have to give credits for the writer actually reaching out to Birdwell, and doing at least some investigative journalism.

Not torrents, but this one https://documentaryheaven.com/ from https://fmhy.net/ looks promising

Lutris and steam’s proton (with protontricks if needed) have worked for me quite well so far. Biggest possible issue is with the different dependencies that games might have (I’m looking at you .NET)

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