What’s best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.

  • CleanDefinition@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Bottles maybe? It’s a flatpak so it’s containerized.

    You shouldn’t worry that much anyway, if a pirated game has a virus it’s most likely designed for Windows.

    • brakenium@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Wine might translate the windows calls to Linux depending on what the malware does