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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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[–] voxelastronaut@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Get your games from trusted sources, make sure the hash lines up, and don't worry about it. Especially since you're on Linux--you'll be absolutely fine. Common sense goes a long way.

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Not an expert, but I assume Bottles would be a good idea. It allows you to create separate wine prefixes for each app so if any app is malicious, it shouldn't affect any other one.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're really paranoid, you could run the game inside bubblewrap, inside a container.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

lmao literally my setup + a VM layer on top of it all.

Maybe im too paranoid

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Spin up a VM, load the game on that.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 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

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