And your games are spying on you. Many of these games employ invasive anti-cheat systems which shake down your computer and send a bunch of data to their servers. This shit doesn't fly with distro packages.
Yeah, they definitely wouldn't be in distro packages, but I want to play them nonetheless. That means I either have to run software which isn't in my distro repo, or switch to Windows.
You wish! Which distro are you talking about? Can't be Ubuntu for sure...
Ubuntu is an outlier, not a representative of all of Linux. Linux is open source, you can make a distro that does anything you want, including spying on others. This doesn't make the distros that don't any worse.