Moving to Linux soon, and wondering how pirated games work with it. I know about proton with steam and lutris for most bought games, but how would I run pirated windows games over there?

  • rush@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There is AppImages. There’s also tools to package games as AppImages with Wine.

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      1 year ago

      Oh AppImages the thing that takes 20 seconds to launch an Application :) What a great option. Not even Joplin launches as an AppImage in a decent time. For what’s worth Flatpak was a godsend. Either solutions still have the issues I described before tho.

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        1 year ago

        AppImage launch times should be not that far off of running it barebone unless you have a MASSIVE appimage, as it uses FUSE, but I get your frustration, especially on slower hardware.

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          1 year ago

          AppImage launch times should be not that far off of running it barebone unless you have a MASSIVE appimage

          They are and I guess Joplin isn’t that big. Flatpaks are way, way faster and make the same thing… but better in all ways. i7 8th gen with NVME btw.