The only things I've found searching news from the past month is German soldiers honoring WW2 POWs that were laid to rest there and "HRC" (yes, it was abbreviated like that) Human Resources Command team. I'm not sure what "recently" means. Maybe OP will let us know.
The limitation of currency would make it immensely more valuable. The price of everything would be adjusted to accommodate it. The fact that they can print all the fancy paper they want is part of the problem.
The logistics of distributing an equal share to start over would be a bit of a problem, and handing it out based on what you currently possess would be extremely unfair and solve nothing. The amount available isn't really the problem.
Here's ProtonDB, which gives a relative compatibility gauge for games. If you play things from something that isn't Steam you'll want to look into Lutris. So far it's the easiest most convenient way to get non-Steam games up and running that I've experienced.
You'll need a blank or otherwise unimportant USB drive that's about 8GB in size minimum, and a program that can write ISOs to USB flashdrives. There's a list, the only ones I have tried and will vouch for are the Universal USB Installer and Win32 Disk Imager.
Vulkan changed things pretty significantly. WINE and it's derivatives can now translate DirectX calls to vulkan ones and a lot of games run. Quite a few even run well, like you'd never even know the difference. Steam developed their own wrapper for this called Proton and it makes me happy.
Let's see... download iso, burn to disc/write to flash drive... configure BIOS to boot from DVD/USB? If you're a crayon eater you probably have something prebuilt, and probably Dell. Having installed Linux on a few more recent Dells it can certainly be a pain in the ass. You have to disable secure boot, enable booting from USB, yada yada... I can try to help with it if that's what you're stuck on.
Unless you have some really obscure hardware, or want to do some off the wall crazy things just pick Debian/Ubuntu or a derivative and you should have relatively few problems. Or if you like more of a challenge there's a million and one different distros, something is sure to suit you.
I tried Arch once, because it's a meme. Too fiddly. The process of constructing my system from the ground up was fun though. Like Legos, but with software.
True enough, I was mostly thinking of the ferrofluid. I think being magnetic they're more affected by the magnetism than the frequency/volume.
On a Star of Remphan.