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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, nowadays malware behavior is more likely to come from the companies than the cracks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

If I don't hear that sweet 8 bit techno house blaring out of the PC speaker, then I start to worry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So true. I'm in the warez-scene for >3 decades now, never had a single issue. But nowadays legit software, especially AAA? Ugh...