My gaming PC has no personally-identifiable information whatsoever and can be purged freely at a moment’s notice.

Checkmate.

inb4 everybody except the people who have actually been daily-driving linux for 10+ years have an answer

fwiw I use Mint

If you’re a pirate I always recommend keeping your gaming/media PC dedicated to only that and do other work stuff on another computer. That way even if you catch malware or viruses it can’t harm any important stuff.

Why do I prefer wearing the clothes and shoes that I’ve already broken in and gotten used to instead of crisp new items just out of the store? Guess I’ll never know

Many GOATed piracy resources have always been hosted on Github. Massgrave and abbodi1406’s Windows and Office activators, Goldberg’s SteamEmu, and many of the public wikis that accept edits through pull requests.