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Pretty much every platform is both, except linux maybe.

Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me

They might not be getting money from you, but they’re getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)… Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.

Just like every project, you engage with it only as much as you want to. You can just use the arch install script, update pacman every couple of weeks and stop there.

It speaks to your willingness and eagerness to tinker with your systems, that’s pretty much arch’s core audience.

If you like to mod games you’ll probably want arch linux as it’s heavily modular - you choose everything. You can use the archinstall script to get you setup or follow the installation guide.