That used to be the case but I wonder if it still is.
Modern software is loaded down with telemetry and crash reporting. So the software itself is likely doing the reporting at this point.
Linux definitely has more weird permutations with regards to software and hardware and would expect it to produce more issues just based on that.
I mean they don’t make it very hard to play their first party Games. Just pay the online free. The main issue is that not all of those games from 1997 are their games. They are just made for their system.