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Pirated game on Linux? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Moving to Linux soon, and wondering how pirated games work with it. I know about proton with steam and lutris for most bought games, but how would I run pirated windows games over there?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much... and the end result tends to be poor. A Windows license costs close to nothing to most people (comes with computers, can be bought for 10$ in some places, pirated etc) and things work out of the box as expected, better ROI. Even if you've to virtualize and/or dual boot still easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wasn’t saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much…

If you think it's too much time and effort for you, that's fair enough.

I obviously don't think it is or I wouldn't do it. Also something to note is it gets easier and faster with time as you have more things already installed and thus more games run out of the box, as well as just having the experience and know-how of what to do.

and the end result tends to be poor.

I'm not having poor end results compared to when I were using Windows, so that's just a you thing.

Only real notable fault for linux gaming is online multiplayer games with anti-cheat, and luckily for me I don't play those anyway.

Well one thing that hasn't been working that comes to mind is Frosty Tool Suite, a mod manager for Frostbite engine games, so I was unable to replay Dragon Age Inquisition with new mods on Linux.

That however isn't a game itself but a 3rd party mod manager, and technically I could get it too work by either using a NTFS formatted hard drive or some other tricks, but it seemed too much of a pain to deal with so I've left that on the back-burner.