I literally just moved to Gnome 44 from a long time Gnome 3 setup. I only found one extension that makes Gnome 4x feel usable the way gnome 3 was and that's v-shell. If v-shell breaks then I'm never moving to gnome 45.
They should make a new version of Linux From Scratch where all you get is the Linux kernel source code and you write the compiler and core utils yourself. Now that would be Linux.
That's fair and Microsoft fired their entire update testing team and then pushed multiple updates that bricked Windows installs. And that was just Windows 10.
I think 100 dollars is more than enough money to cover a few bytes of text storage. It's not like they are storing megabytes of tracking meta data. And if they are that's even more reason to provide the service for free.
This method should work with any command that's installing files on your disk but it's probably not worth the headache when virtual environments exist for python.
Paid apps can also steal user data and also I'd be way way more concerned about 'free' mobile apps than open source programs.
Mobile apps can and will get a jarring amount of your data just for being installed.