What’s best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.

  • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Have a machine dedicated to gaming, no Internet access, with a swappable SSD. Make a clean OS install. Clone it to an external backup drive, then disconnect the backup. Install and play. If you want to play another game, format the drive, clone the OS from the external backup, install and play. If you want to play multiple games, have them on different SSD drives.

    It’s hardware sandboxing.

    • Toribor@corndog.social
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      8 months ago

      If you’re this concerned you might as well be running Windows in a VM with gpu passthrough.