Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Outside of delisted games, I always encourage people not to, but yes.

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• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why wouldn’t you?

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  • falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was always under the assumption that I cannot run Windows games on Linux, and that in order for games to work on Linux they need to be compiled for Linux and not windows.

    All the pirated games are windows games. I haven’t seen pirated games for Linux specifically.

    So do I understand correctly that I can download pirated games for windows and run them on Linux?

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Using a program like wine, yes. Though it’ll depend to what level is successful.

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      • falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And I assume running wine adds overhead and makes games run slower?

        So I can only run pirated games by going through extra hoops and even then the level of success is varying?

        See that’s what’s been preventing me from switching to linux for years and years and it seems this hasn’t changed really :(

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Malware is a decent reason. You may get the game, but you’ll likely get more along with it.

    Now movies on the other hand…

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume, it is often more easy to get games running without (or removed) drm, as drm may be the one tricky thing that is hard to get working with wine 🤔

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