[Pop! OS] Playing Minecraft while keeping Microsoft's spyware on a leash.

Good evening,

I'm considering installing Minecraft on my Linux laptop so I can play with my friends, but if I can't control what the application has access to, then there was ultimately no point in getting a privacy-based distro. Would it be possible to find a way to keep the application from accessing files other than the necessary ones, without virtualization?

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