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I've installed cracked windows versions of games on the steam deck before, adding them as a non steam game, going to properties and setting them to boot with proton. I even installed a few this way by adding the installer exe as a non steam game and running that in desktop mode, under proton. It's a hassle to find where it installed it after, but it worked for me anyhow
Welp thank you for the advice, i will definetly look into that.
Edit: i found a comment by a reddit user saying this:
If you add the shortcut or the exe file to the library, Steam will not spy on you and ban you for using whatever you're using.
If you're adding a third-party/non-Steam game then it doesn't matter because Steam system will see it differently (those games are not recognized as owned or anything similar to that in Steam, because they come from outside of Steam).
For example I have several pirate GOG games in Steam and those work differently than the games I bought on the Steam store or added to my library through the Steam store (those just work differently, Steam just sees it as an extension/shortcut/hub and does not see it the same way as a bought game in Steam).
So i think i'm free to add pirated games as non steam games on the platform, right?
Yeah, hasn't stopped me in...15 years? Half my entire library is pirated and emulator shortcuts lol