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I am not technically knowledgeable but will keep my windows laptop for this game and not attempt any Steam download on my new Mac. I will also try to dig deeper and spend some time learning some of this technical language to make better decisions. I think I have a few days yet to return the mac with a 10 percent restocking fee at Best Buy if this is a larger problem than I realize.
Now something I wanted to add,
Apple also widely takes your data to sell it to third parties. Not saying you should do or not do whatever you want, just saying that the extreme effort and investigation to avoid giving any informations is pretty useless at that level. I see the point in not accepting cookies and using secondary more low profile services for security reasons, but if you want to play a videogame which is hosted on a platform that requires you to make a account and is multiplayer, don't worry, every third party business and their mothers already know your are playing No Man's Sky.
Conclusion, if data worries you, then stop using Apple, Windows/Microsoft and 90% of brands inmediatly. Use Linux, pirate the game and play with your router plugged off. Otherwise I recommend to just keep playing as you are doing.
I'm glad to see someone who decides to inform themselves instead of turning a blind eye to anything outside their bubble.
Like everyone else in this thread says, just use a good privacy-oriented Linux distro (I'm not an expert so I couldn't recommend one for you). Setup a dual-boot with Windows if you want to play games and ONLY use that to play games as a sort of sandbox. But even with all that, you're never going to be 100% inside a safe bubble. You can make efforts to reduce your online footprint and that's honestly a good habit to develop, but you shouldn't worry about Steam and other third parties knowing you're playing a videogame. Stay safe.
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I can understand the appeal for the end user of the 'buy it and enjoy it' appearance of Apple products, but the hype is not what it at first appears.
Honestly, if you are willing to wade through a new environment like that, and you are concerned with security and stability, I would suggest ZorinOS - a Linux operating system, which I won't bore you with 'distro details', etc. - is an extremely stable, aesthetically beautiful system that you don't even need to touch the terminal outside of extremely odd circumstances if you want to tinker with edge case software, etc.
The free version is fully functional, looks great, works great. The only things the paid 'Pro' version gets you are some extra built-in themes, layouts, and live Support. I did pay for my copies just to support them because I'm that impressed with what they pulled off for myself and others who aren't Linux wizards and I also REALLY like their 'mac layout' or Gnome desktop with all its features which is a part of the paid version. Although if you know how to do it, you can simply install all of that on your own in the free version.
Anything you want or need is in the software shop, or is downloadable ready to install.
Steam just works. Install it, install your games, and play them. At this point in Valve's development of Proton, it's actually more rare that a game doesn't run than does. There are still exceptions. One related example, I found out once I moved all my game files to a second drive that the 'flatpak' version of Steam doesn't like it - so I uninstalled Steam, and reinstalled the 'deb' version from the shop and it's worked flawlessly since. A simple choice to select in the shop I wasn't aware of at the time. No biggie, a quick google solved it.
So, in closing - I've been using some flavor of Linux as my main operating system for about 15 years. Yeah I know, for you Linux peops reading, it really is possible for someone to still hate the terminal and hate it all the more after all this time :)
I finally found a very VERY happy home in ZorinOS. I hope others can too. It's so nice to just turn on my PC and use it. No tinkering needed.
Later!
I am following through with more research into the other posts here and am grateful for the detailed info. Some good leads for me to dig deeper.
I understand there is no safe bubble...and as someone who is not an absolute thinker I'm focused on terms of safer habits.
Yeah, I understand there is no getting away from the data selling entirely.
It's all about healthier habits for me. I'm learning more about Linux and think in a few days I can know enough to give it a shot. I already decided to keep both of my current systems. I still have the gaming computer (which I use less and less as I return to work) and am using the Mac mini for primary usage.
I read quite a few articles concerning that chip controversy. I agree with you that the issue is not too significant in my case. It would require a lot of effort both on my part in downloading a malicious app as well as a lot of time spent from some potential hacker.
I think any point concerning Windows being less secure might have more to do with the fact that way more people use that operating system than any other.
Thanks for the reply!