To be fair to the new owners the previous ones never mentioned the lifetime subscriptions existed and they were sinking the company. Probably the reason the original owners sold in the first place.
Nope, you need an internet connection to get past initial setup. Unless you use pro, there you can select to domain join computer instead and it'll let you create a local account
Last time I used Linux (2 months ago maybe, bazzite) audio kept turning itself down to like 5% volume. Turning it up would instantly make it go down again if I let go of the volume slider
Yeah they gave up announcing new release dates for it like half a decade ago if not longer lmao, but now they've started again. Hopefully it's true this time.
Controller would make sense. I've also only tried it in first person games where input delay is probably more noticeable than other types of games