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submitted 8 months ago by biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What's best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.

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[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Spin up a VM, load the game on that.

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

and get 3 fps?

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago

OP wants a safe experience, not a good experience.

[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

You can actually get near native peformance if you set it up correctly.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Not sure why youre being down voted, theoretically this is like the safest way to run a game "on linux", even if you are using windows under it lol