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I've decided to switch to Linux Mint, but i have a lot of pirated games. How to play them with all the cracks and stuff in linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don't use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I'm switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100% graphics card or less? I want to know about all these. Please people in my condition help. Thanks in advance :)

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 17 points 5 months ago

You'll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it's not an emulator. It's a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Ok got it.

bottles
proton
lutris
wine

I'll try one game with most different crack with each and see which works the best. Thanks for the suggestions.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 26 points 5 months ago

FWIW bottles and lutris are launchers which will preconfigure and run your games in wine or proton which are the underlying translation layers.

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago

Thanks this made it little bit clearer.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 10 points 5 months ago

Also to further over explain, proton is just wine + some extra libraries like dxvk

[-] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Skip bottles, havent found a use case for it that lutris didnt handle. Not saying you might not use it for some specific situation, its just never happened to me.

Lutris is a GUI and front end that runs emulators and calls them runners.

Wine is a runner for windows, proton is steams version of it. You can add you local games to steam and then use the compatibility menu in game properties to enable the proton emulator.

Some distros come with all this preinstalled, makes it very easy. Some of them you have to install each piece individually. I dont know which mint is, but I'd look into that first so you know what to expect.

For example popos came with it all preinstalled while endeavouros did not.

I really can't recommend popos enough for those that have a wider use case (work, browsing, gaming) that want a reliable and out-of-the-box experience with little hastle. Its created by a company that ships their hardware with the OS so you get to piggy back on the support there, and Ubuntu is, IMO, extremely forgiving and intuitive to learn as opposed to arch