If you are a reporter, activist, leak source, privacy freak or whatever, just have Steam run from a different PC than the one used for safe comm, thats the best way to go about conciliating gaming with those activities. This makes for a very large extra attack surface for someone trying to breach into you system, and for very easy tracking from intercepted signals.
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dont use Steam on it! Its a seriously unnecessary risk since (by design) Steam downloads lots of closed source executables (the games), runs all kinds of statistics about the host system (telemetry), phones home all the time about those data and hosts a lot of runtime libraries that it can use instead of the ones provided by the host system, some newer, some older, some just different, maybe some with security breaches, obviously not under a distro's full control. If you truly need Parrot for safety and privacy issues, well. You might want Ubuntu because Valve supports it officially, or you might also want Solus because it has recently taken extra steps to make Steam work flawlessly in their distro. It is a great choice, easy to use, wonderful design (not just aestethics), well documented, quite self explanatory, similar to windows in what is good on windows. For people recently comming to linux, I usually recommend Linux Mint.
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If you can, I recommend dumping Parrot for some other Linux Distro. I'm not joking about Kali devs, they said it themselves on the distro website. Its time for todays "Even Kali developers say its not for daily use, much less for Steam gaming" talk.Įven though Parrot, Kali and such extra-reinforced privacy and security distros look normal on the surface (a common Desktop Environment), under the hood they are setup as a very safe but very locked down environment, not really suitable for daily use.