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Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 44 points 3 months ago (1 child)

There are relatively few people who "crack" the games and the community around it is very verbal. Some people go deep on inspecting things, and if something gets found they're added to a list of untrusted sources. From what I've seen it's hard to get that trust back.

So yeah it's definitely a risk, but not a super dangerous one. Especially if you use Linux and a VM

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You're gaming in a Linux VM?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Other way around. In a Windows VM on Linux

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    You are playing in a VM on Linux? So you have 2 GPUs?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Linux is way less bloatware than Windows. Hard not to really

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    By the time you're in the VM you are back into the bloat? Also you need a pass through GPU for hardware acceleration?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Ah, Windows VM on Linux. I thought the other way around. I mean if you don’t have much of another choice I guess that’s all you got but most things work on Linux now, so why do it indeed. GPU pass through works with many VM programs tho afaik

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I am. I run cachyos which I run most of my steam games from. If I pirate something I do it in a VM to test it out, and if I like it then I buy it on steam/GOG.

    The VM has very little performance loss either because they're just that good now or because I have a pretty good pc I'm not sure. I also run games like BanderLord in a VM so I can mod with vortex. (Yes the setup is very stupid, but it's a glass castle and I'm scared to move anything)

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Steam already runs games in a form of container (pressure vessel) in Linux, it's quite secure.

    Also, in this day an age, anybody that is conscious or security plays games in a dedicated machine..

    Edit: for those downvoting me and saying that Steam games in Linux are not containenarized and more secure, go read https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/tree/main/pressure-vessel which is the basis of Proton and sandboxed, since like 10 years....

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Steam does not run games in a container at all... Are you talking about Proton?

    It really just seems like you have no idea what you're talking about.

    Best of luck to you.

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