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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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[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You wouldn't download a virus

Piracy is THEFT

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All those companies are stealing from their users. If I steal from a thief, is it really theft?

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was meant to be a joke... viruses are MEANT to be downloaded by their creators, but nobody would actually want to do that

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry. I suffer from being too literal sole times (most of the time actually).

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