The difficult part is the elimination... There are too many of them
There's a good chance the original commenter is not from the US
Almost 10 times less where I live, but not sure because I don't know which dollars you're referring to
Completely depends on your country
Completely depends on your country
While I am part of the 'zed' group, there is no "correct" pronounciation for anything because it all depends on accent and culture. Just embrace the diversity.
I have been taught and everyone around me accepts that Natural numbers start from 1 and Whole numbers start from 0
About the piracy part - try using Heroic or Lutris. Lutris has worked for me every single time without fail, but I did need to take some effort into understanding how wine/proton works on the surface level. Try using GE (glorious eggroll) versions of proton/wine too.
I did try those, but it might be the fault of my nvidia card for not working. The issue was that I wasn't able to understand nor fix any problems that popped up. I'll try it out again when I get a new GPU
HDR is almost useless to me. I'll switch when wayland has proper remote desktop support (lmk if it does but I'm pretty sure it does not)