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Windows 11 LTSC vs Linux for piracy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I recently built a new gaming computer and have been contemplating about the OS.

I prefer to move away from windows given obvious reasons and do like using Linux, but my experience with my steam deck has taught me that pirating games in Linux is hit or miss.

I played around with windows LTSC and honestly, seems like windows without the bloatware.

So question is, how is game pirating on Linux (in a desktop, not steam deck).

Is it as smooth as windows or should I just say fuck it and accept that my gaming computer has to stay windows for another generation?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what a good written guide for manually running linux games is off the top of my head, but generally yeah you install Lutris, install the latest Proton-GE version through e.g. ProtonUp-QT, create a game entry in Lutris with a "Prefix" location dedicated to your wine prefix, pick Proton-GE as the runner, copy the game into the generated prefix, target the normal EXE, and launch it. Sometimes if a game isn't launching you'll need to use "winetricks" to install vcrun2022 and dotnet48 dependencies into the wine prefix, since each Wine prefix is sort of like a copy of windows, and windows has a handful of dependencies that games sometimes rely on. I've heard you can also just add the game as a "non-steam game" to steam, but I've not bothered as Lutris gives more control. Again I can't vouch for any specific guides, but the keywords from this post should help target a general direction to move in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's way too much work than simply installing fucking windows and be done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Half of the instructions there are installing tools that you only install once, not every game.

And once you set up Lutris, it's pretty trivial to open .exe files with it.