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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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[–] XCraftMC 20 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Virtual machines. Disable drag-and-drop and shared folders/clipboard. It’s still not impossible to escape the vm but it’s very difficult and most malware isnt capable of doing that.

[–] XCraftMC 24 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Don’t use VirtualBox. It’s great for most things but it’s not powerful enough for games. Use VMware Player or Workstation and use the max amount of vram it’ll let you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't speak for VMware's technology, but the company just got bought by Broadcom, so treat them with Red Hat-like suspicion.

[–] XCraftMC 4 points 11 months ago

oh yeah no the company is sketchy af. The product is better for this specific use case though so that’s why i’m recommending it

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