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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 44 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I don't pirate games but after reading this, I DEFINITELY will not pirate games. If these clowns are the ones cracking/repacking the games then I do NOT trust the games to not contain malware/bullshit/whatever. Maybe I'm being paranoid but I wouldn't go anywhere near software put out by these people. They sound like the types to include malware just to frame the other group or whatever. Idk. These people are morons.

[–] iliketrains@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

nowadays I assume cracked software (unless if the crack script is fully open source) to likely contain some kind of malware and I just sandbox them since I play cracked games with bottles flatpak anyway.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flatpak is a linux package format. Bottles is a gui software that makes it easy to run windows software (especially games) on linux (it is a very good gui/management tool for wine)

Casual wine/proton W

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