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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    1 year ago

    I’ve recently been convinced to try Linux again because it’s so easy etc but I didn’t about repacks and fuck, why does it seem so complicated? Windows, 2 clicks of a button and it’s done…

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      Here’s your why: https://lemmy.world/comment/4119679

      This is kind of another problem, why can’t we have self-contained one click things anymore. Nowadays its all about dependency hell, cloud based stuff and whatnot. It doesn’t matter if you’re under Windows or Linux still the same crap, long gone are the days when we could get a game on a CD/DVD and be able to install that offline for ever. There should be laws in place against this, software is becoming very “volatile” mostly unreliable and unusable after months or years.

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        There is AppImages. There’s also tools to package games as AppImages with Wine.

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          Oh AppImages the thing that takes 20 seconds to launch an Application :) What a great option. Not even Joplin launches as an AppImage in a decent time. For what’s worth Flatpak was a godsend. Either solutions still have the issues I described before tho.

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            AppImage launch times should be not that far off of running it barebone unless you have a MASSIVE appimage, as it uses FUSE, but I get your frustration, especially on slower hardware.

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              AppImage launch times should be not that far off of running it barebone unless you have a MASSIVE appimage

              They are and I guess Joplin isn’t that big. Flatpaks are way, way faster and make the same thing… but better in all ways. i7 8th gen with NVME btw.

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      For jc141 and LinuxRulez it really is just 2 clicks once you have the dependencies installed. Your distro will already have most stuff installed but if you follow along with the jc141 setup they basically cover nearly every option that someone might need to get their repacks to just work.

      I just checked and it took 16 clicks within Lutris to install a Fitgirl repack, not counting the Fitgirl install setup part.

      I’d personally much prefer to do that than to have to deal with Windows and Microsoft but thats just because I care more about online privacy and can’t stand monopolies more than the average person.

      To make it even easier, instead of using Lutris you could just install them as non Steam games in Steam, again I probably would just use Steam to install them if I didn’t care about privacy and stuff.

      I don’t see these things as a linux issue but more so as a monopoly issue. Microsoft has gone decades doing everything they can to ensure Windows is what people think of when they think of computers and its worked.

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        Microsoft has gone decades doing everything they can to ensure Windows is what people think of when they think of computers and its worked.

        I agree, I think Google has done an even better job brainwashing people to the point that any search online is considered ‘Googling’, still makes me cringe to hear ppl unknowingly shill for a corporate monopoly without even consciously knowing they are a walking advert for Alphabet’s data harvesting empire.

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          Oh yeah I get it. And I’m not adverse to learning new things. If anything I’m interested in moving to Linux to learn something new but as I mentioned on another post for me it’s about time. Between work and 3 kids, I don’t have much of it, not enough to barely do the things I want to do but maybe one day. If I make the switch to Linux, I need everything that I have going on Windows now, to just work.