It is a move to decouple from the USA for critical infrastructure. They don’t want to be in a similar situation as Ukraine in any potential conflict. Where the USA just says we will no longer allow you to use our computer chips for war with Russia.

I was getting some meh results with DuckDuckGO so I switched to Qwant and started trying it instead.

Well it is both funny and depressing to follow someones descent into madness.

I will try in the Linux community. I was planning to look at the drives suggested and look up compatability afterwards and if someone knew one that worked that would have just been a bonus.

Yes, sorry English is not my first language so sometimes I make mistakes.

As for the Linux thing it was more that sometimes hardware just doesn’t work with it, that is why I mentioned it. I was more looking for a recomendation on a dvd or blu-ray (with cd capability for ps1 games) drive that people had good experience with.

Sorry I thought you would have a recommendation for a decent external disk drive do I could back up and run my ps2 games through emulation.