As much as GOG/CD Projekt have more than their fair share of problems, usually their versions of games work, can be preserved, don’t require as much bloat, launchers included, and usually don’t require 3rd party validation. And like others said, besides Wine and related, and installing through Steam as external games, you can also install stuff very easily through Heroic and the sort. So I’d say it’s the better option indeed.

“Dumbfication” of songs is part of the reason I started listening a lot to rock. Quite a few rock bands seem to at least try to make something thoughtful.

But also been finding some musics outside of this niche too. Like, after some 10 years, I found again a music I quite enjoyed back then, Stromae’s “House’Llelujah”. I don’t speak French so figuring the lyrics out is hard, but for this “DJ” type of music, besides the rhythm, it also appears to have a more thought out lyrics.

Picking musics more or less at random, but feel free to check the rest of their discographies!

• Rhapsody of Fire’s “A Tale of Magic”
• Fake Type’s “Mister Jewel Box”
• Delain’s “Invictus”, Babymetal’s “Metal Kingdom”
• Beast in Black’s “Broken Survivors”
• Sabaton’s “Soldier of Heaven”
• Marko Hietala’s “Isäni ääni”
• Melodicka Bros’ “Élan” cover
• Minniva’s “Carolus Rex” cover
• Dan Vasc’s “The Bard’s Song” cover
• Dave Melodicka’s “Kill the Witch”
• Where the Water Tastes Like Wine’s track “Heavy Hands”
• Steam World Heist’s track “What We Need Are some Heroes”
• Plumbo’s “Vandrern”
• Powerwolf’s “Armata Strigoi”
• Stromae’s “House’Llelujah”