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

submitted 11 months ago by Divine_Confetti@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

I think I remember one of them saying its because some games can be decompressed "on the fly" with DwarFS. So their mindset is the user doesn't have 2 copies of the game, compressed and decompressed, which saves space but also increases the chance that the user will continue to seed the files. Instead of someone downloading the archive, decompressing it and deleting the archive and just keeping the game files which can't be seeded.