Hello, the only thing from stopping me to fully use Manjaro as my primary daily OS is that pirating on linux is inconvenient. When i install pirated games on Linux they must be really lightweight to support, like Undertale or Papers Please, because WINE uses Vulkan graphics and they are fucking terrible on slightly more heavy games like superhot and shit, this entails having bad frame rate like 20 fps (unplayable). To whoever is using Linux and also pirates games on daily basis, do you also have the same problem? Is there any solution you could suggest me? Thank you
have you tried running them with Proton or ProtonGE?
Isn’t that exclusive to Steam games?
I mean proton is available in the AUR last I checked. Also, couldn’t you just use the “add non-steam game” option in steam? I’ve heard it does sometimes block pirated games, but it wouldn’t hurt to try
Yeah wouldn’t hurt to have my account banned i guess, nah
No
I’ve installed cracked windows versions of games on the steam deck before, adding them as a non steam game, going to properties and setting them to boot with proton. I even installed a few this way by adding the installer exe as a non steam game and running that in desktop mode, under proton. It’s a hassle to find where it installed it after, but it worked for me anyhow
Welp thank you for the advice, i will definetly look into that.
Edit: i found a comment by a reddit user saying this:
If you add the shortcut or the exe file to the library, Steam will not spy on you and ban you for using whatever you’re using.
If you’re adding a third-party/non-Steam game then it doesn’t matter because Steam system will see it differently (those games are not recognized as owned or anything similar to that in Steam, because they come from outside of Steam).
For example I have several pirate GOG games in Steam and those work differently than the games I bought on the Steam store or added to my library through the Steam store (those just work differently, Steam just sees it as an extension/shortcut/hub and does not see it the same way as a bought game in Steam).
So i think i’m free to add pirated games as non steam games on the platform, right?
Yeah, hasn’t stopped me in…15 years? Half my entire library is pirated and emulator shortcuts lol