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can nix for gaming pirates lead to easy piracy (monyet.cc)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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nix allows for flakes which are 100% reproducible (ie. you copy paste a flake it would do the intended stuff only) , this make me realize that now we can have flakes for games like do you want inscryption , sure add this flake and this would install all dependencies and lutris etc. and you just have to link us to the gog-games.to / fitgirl-repack / dodi-repack variant (preferrably , gog-games.to since you can verify it with gog) (i have picked only the goat of gaming piracy from megathread) , imo this can give huge boost to gaming in linux and wine is literally really close to giving native performance and you wont even see the difference

the same logic can be applied to ms excel , powerpoint etc. but i dont see the point after using libreoffice (literally the best thing ever)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think Flatpak or AppImages would be a more appropriate distribution method, as much as I love nix and flakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would second flatpak and app images, not everyone is on NixOS, and I would like to not use NixOS any time soon as it doesn't appeal to me the way it works.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

The neat and confusing thing about nix and flakes is that you don't need to be using the OS to benefit from using nix as a home manager/ package installer.

Fleek is a good example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't it be cool if you could store Flatpaked/appimage games on a USB drive indefinitely so then you could plug it into another machine and simply launch the game from it?

You know, like a video game console!