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I've decided to switch to Linux Mint, but i have a lot of pirated games. How to play them with all the cracks and stuff in linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don't use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I'm switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100% graphics card or less? I want to know about all these. Please people in my condition help. Thanks in advance :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Check out bottles, there you can easily run your cracked games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is bottle different from wine ? And thank you for suggesting it. I'll look it up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

Wine isn't super hard to use, but it's annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new "bottles" (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

Very handy.

Bottles is usually more recommended because it's more streamlined... Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn't good with making friends in the scene :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I used bottles for a while, until it wiped basically all of my game data. Lutris is much better imo, use wine-ge and had zero issues