Cloud sync also requires the drm, but the advantage that gog and itch have over steam is that for most games you just get the executables and you're good to go.
As an alternative, Unraid. While it's paid, it strips away a lot of the hassle you mentioned in your post. Has a built in shop where you just click, set up ports/shares and docker containers just spin up for you.
While I'm not a huge fan of their recent subscription model change, I do love their OS (I got I'm still grandfathered into the pre-existing perpetual license.
Just made the switch to pop os myself, all my games running fine even ff xiv which I was most worried about. Not sure why I didn't do this sooner. Come tax season I'll just spin up a windows vm for hrblock or whatever I decide to use.
Yeah... I switched to an mvno less than a week after I got the text. I'm now paying half of what I used to for the same service (even the same network)
Whatever my installation CD had as default 😂. I'm guessing ext4?