I Just Can't Understand How to install fitgirl repacks on linux (self.piracy)

submitted 1 year ago by KDE to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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hello fellow sailers , hope you're having a nice day , a few months back i switched to arch linux because my computer has good ram but not that good gpu , but now i would like to play some og games like portal 2 , portal 1 , inscryption etc from fitgirl repacks and i have scoured through many guides but nothing just works , too complicated. can't there be a simple guide with preferably images or something like that (like a website /blog maybe?) I would really appreciate that since many of my friends may like to join linux ship but they are pirates like me as well who wouldn't be able to play games on linux. #Fitgirl-repacks,#Linux

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

You have to login with your steam account, but yes, it lets you download pretty much anything, things that the normal Steam won't let you play because you haven't bought them or for other weird reasons.

Typical use for steamcmd is to force-download the Windows version of a game that the publisher insists can't be played with Proton. I've used it for example to force-download the Binding of Isaac, which works perfectly fine with Proton, but for some reason the game refused to install with regular Steam on Linux. After I downloaded it I could set the compatibility to Proton and it worked fine. 🤷

You can also use steamcmd to automate the installation of multiple games, for example after you reinstalled your PC, and so on.