do all pirated games work in linux? (programming.dev)

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obv excluding uwp games and hv based cracks(may change in the future,as hv team said they are working on it) from my post bec they dont work. so do all normal game cracks work on linux? ie. denuvo based voices38,empress,and others cracks? steam cracks of goldberg? and others?

i want to hear the experince of people here with pirated gaming on linux.

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[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, but in my experience, its more work to get it to work. Some games will launch immediately, others you will find yourself tweaking proton settings or installing dependencies. On windows every cracked game just launches immediately.

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