Thats why you usually use a VM / dedicated computer to download / check pirated software. Its annoying… But less annoying than the shit that ubisoft / EA does…
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thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am not going to be the one to try to stop you but you need to keep in mind that games/sw piracy comes with great risks.
You need to execute anti cheat / drm / copyrighted stuff and this is always a big door open to malware.
Be cautious out there, it is not a pleasant walk
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 3 months ago
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Using a VM to check pirated software, but then running it on your main pc if you don’t notice any malware (I think that’s what you are saying?) is not safe.
Running untrusted software only on a vm or machine that you don’t care about with zero personal info is safest.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
At least from Lutris you can run your games (pirated our otherwise) genuinelly sandboxed with something like Bubblewrap or Firejail, which as far as I can tell you can’t do in Steam (unless you sandbox Steam itself, which is problematic if for example you want to deny networking to some games but not others).
IMHO, if you sandbox them it’s actually safer to run pirated versions of games in Linux than running the official versions from Steam with no sandboxing, at least for AAA since pretty much all those companies have done or do abusive shit.
thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Gaming in a vm is possible, high end multi-player game in a vm is more complicated because of the performance penalty and the anti cheat (again the same problem) honestly I don’t know how good this solution could be
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Why not just use Linux to game?
thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, it would not be the first time that an anti cheat is having a Trojan and a Keylogger to add a computer into a botnet.
Let’s be honest here, nobody is interested in yiur specific data but your hw…
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 months ago
At this point I trust Fitgirl repacks more than some official publishers.