The latter - downloading the windows cracked version and yeah, wine or proton. It works beautifully.
That’s when there is no native linux version obviously; these days you can also find pirate versions of those when they exist (most notably on rutracker).
I think there is one person putting out repacks especially made for Linux mind you (can’t remember their name though found it, it’s johncena141), including specific wine versions and so on in the repack, though I’ve never used them
I’ve fallen so far out of the loop with games piracy.
I gather that there are repacks now for Linux? Or do you dl the windows version then just run it through proton?
The latter - downloading the windows cracked version and yeah, wine or proton. It works beautifully.
That’s when there is no native linux version obviously; these days you can also find pirate versions of those when they exist (most notably on rutracker).
I think there is one person putting out repacks especially made for Linux mind you (
can’t remember their name thoughfound it, it’s johncena141), including specific wine versions and so on in the repack, though I’ve never used themHopefully they become a little more well known. I am apprehensive of downloading from any repacker that isn’t on the Piracy Megathread or FMHY wiki.