Brave is proprietary, and they have some sort of ad scheme to make money. Also the head of that operation is a known homophobe.

Mozilla are bought and paid for, controlled opposition. And everybody working there has about the same worldview as your average Facebook employee.

LibreWolf is just a couple of tweaks to Firefox to improve the situation a little bit. So let’s say there is no good option.

Most emulators are free software and work on Linux and have worked for a long time. As Android and Raspberry Pis have become quite popular as emulation systems, the free software emulators, which are easily portable to these ARM+Linux system, have taken off as the most popular emulators in general. Anything that’s also available on Android or RetroPie will work on Linux for sure. There’s an emulator for every popular console that works on Linux about as well as it does on Windows.

DOS games you can run in DOSbox. Pretty sure compatibility is 100%. This is also how e.g. GOG makes these games run on Windows, because modern Windows can’t run these games either without emulation.

As for old Windows games, it is worth trying Wine, the Windows compatibly layer. Volunteers have successfully been trying to get games (especially games actually!) to run on Linux since the 90s. Twenty-something years ago I was gaming on Linux playing Starcraft, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 and god knows what. Anecdotally, some old Windows games that no longer run on Windows will work fine in Wine. A prominent example is The Sims 2. There’s a video out there of some millennial Sims streamer and housewife instructing her thousands of viewers on how to install Linux in order to get that game to run better.

Steam comes with a version of Wine, called Proton, so 90%+ percent of games on Steam run somewhere between fine and perfectly fine. Not everything though, you should check on protondb.com.

Playing in a VM is a terrible idea btw, the performance will suck. You don’t need to and don’t want to do that.

The signal/disturbance caused by you arriving travels at light speed, and so will theoretically affect anything within a distance of c times time since arrival. While I wouldn’t expect this to affect macroscopic things too much immediately, those lottery machines are literally designed to be chaotic and affected by the slightest changes. But who knows how chaotic it actually is. Like, could you hook up whole bunch of cameras and lasers and gear like that, measure the balls and their tractories and all that and predict the outcome? Or would you need like microscopic level detail to predict it? Because then I guess even just some molecules being a bit out of place could change the outcome, and that could maybe happen within moments of you arriving.

Also, I think (and this is a bit unclear to me because the quantum physics nerds seem either confused, not in agreement, or incapable of explaining this clearly), the usual believe is that actual randomness happens. So I guess just a do-over, without even changing the initial condition (i.e. you arriving), might change the outcome of the lottery. I will say this seems stupid and wrong to me, but what do I know.

They’re having fun over there.

Austria has 23 of them.