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submitted 3 months ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

Unreal Tournament 2004 has been preserved for free and with a handy community patch by a fan community called OldUnreal.

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[-] Doug@piefed.social 72 points 3 months ago

Me to my mom: Mom you can't just download .exe files from websites nobody's ever heard of before, that's how you get viruses.

Me right now: OH FUCK YEAH GIMME THAT .EXE FILE WHOEVER YOU PEOPLE ARE.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

You can always play computer nurse later, if need be!

[-] rogsson@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

You could always run it on Linux through Proton/Wine

[-] winety@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago

That doesn't make it (much) safer.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago

You could always run another virtual linux in your linux to make it safer.

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At that point, just use QubesOS. I'm pretty sure you can pass through your GPU to VMs on there, although I don't use it myself.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

I use an air gapped system for stuff like that. I read about it here, and I imagine what I think it may be like and I gotta say I like what theyve done with it

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Your username reminds me of something. I don't know what though ...

John Mulaney "Who's to say?"

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

UT2k4 was the least UT to have a native Linux build.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

it is that much that it was impossible for me to check every package but everything has been scanned for viruses

Seems legit

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