i found this website that has linux native games is it safe? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by artiman@piefed.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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https://freelinuxpcgames.com/ the website doesn't look malicious but would like if anyone has proof otherwise I know there's torminatorr, but I would like some direct download websites for Linux since I can't seed while pirating because my ISP has limited bandwidth of 1 TB and my fascist country Iran has $300 minimum wage and I have better ways to use that than seeding, but I don't like leeching EDIT: seems the website is malicious I guess I'm forced to leech or use proton with steamrip games

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[-] sefra1@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While not full proof, but you can always sandbox it with firejail or bubblewrap.

But make sure to read the documentation thoroughly.

[-] morto@piefed.social 7 points 1 year ago

What about creating an user account only for games and not in the sudoers file? Would that be a reasonable way to protect your main user account?

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago

I tried using bubble wrap for this purpose, but it's too difficult and doesn't seem to target this use case.

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