Please remove or tell me to delete if this isn’t allowed!

I’ve been dual booting Ubuntu and Windows for a good few years now. I keep the windows around for gaming, because, ahem, I don’t like giving EA, among others, money. I know it’s not a problem to play most of the games I’ve paid for on Linux, but does anyone have experience with playing games on Linux that you’ve, somehow, obtained for free? And keeping them updated, too?

I’m still going to dual boot because keeping my games separate from my work is a decent adhd strategy for me, so I’m open to gaming friendly OS suggestions as well!

  • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I actually don’t have experience with this, but I’ve heard that all you have to do is use WINE and use the installers as usual and things should work out.

    I’m considering doing the same actually so I’d be interested in hearing how this goes. I don’t dual boot, but use Linux on my work computer and have just been using WSL on my home computer. Would be nice to get rid of the “gaming mode” Windows for my ADHD as well.

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You know I was reading this too, but you actually need some sort of launcher like Lutris or Heroic launcher which comes with Wine and does some setting up. Possible to run just purely through Wine (I did this at start) but the results are… not that great. Though might depend on the game.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Hmm I somehow thought that wouldn’t work with illicit copies; I’ll read up on wine and torrent software that works on it and get back to you if you want :)