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How i can play pirate games on linux (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to play gta san andreas, but the only version available at stores is the nasty remake that rockstar did a while ago, there is a way to play pirate games on linux?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can run them with wine. It's easiest to use Lutris or Bottles, but you can set it up manually if you want to.
Use a separate wine prefix for each game. That way you can't break one game while setting up another.

Be sure to do a virus scan before installing the games. Some windows malware can still screw up Linux if run on wine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What AV would you even have on linux? Maybe to be on the safe side. Boot into a different system on a different drive or a qemu virtual machine

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe ClamAV?

That's the only one I remember hearing about when I started playing with Linux a few years ago.

I remember reading that it was good for scanning for Windows viruses before sharing files with Windowr users, so it might be perfect for this kind of situation. Combine that with VirusTotal and you should be covered.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I usually scan programs that are downloaded from less trustworthy sources on virustotal.com. It's all online, so I don't have to install anything. It checks the hash of the file first so it doesn't even have to be uploaded if someone's already scanned it before.