You shouldn’t need admin rights all the time. If you have an admin password you can use it as needed, but needing to run as admin not just during install but every single time is sus as hell.

If you’re talking about kernel anticheat games, well, you have a permanent back door, so I don’t know what to tell you about staying safe that matters.

Does anyone know if any of these systems will interpret a Google takeout export from Photos? The data separation is brutal, I haven’t found something to pull it together yet.