Also putting sudo in front of what looks like Java code not shell.

Bash (and other shells) have readline support which sounds similar to what you want?

I had this with the Sims, I bought and paid for the game legit but trying to run it through steam it kept trying to load the origin store for auth or something which was a pain in the ass and I couldn’t get it to run reliably.

I ended up using a crack just because it ran without any BS!

Most of the time indie games actually do run on Linux, it’s the games from big studios that don’t (in my experience)

I feel like this is a bad recommendation for someone coming from Windows, it’s quite an opinionated distro.

Considering windows is the complete opposite of trade free I doubt a windows user would be willing to compromise convenience for a philosophy that they probably don’t share.

VPN shouldn’t make a difference

Gentoo has overlays which are similar to AUR, I haven’t felt like I’m missing packages compared to when I ran arch