What about decoding each of the areas both ways and test the amount of entropy in each instance?

Neither, it will be as if you pressed all those keys in the list above, which will most of the time do nothing

This is basically how steam on Linux works.

Windows games are run inside wine

Wine is run in a container (they call the tech pressure vessel, the version of the container most games use is called sniper)

Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later

The container is based on ubuntu