How to play pirated games on Linux

This is the quickest, most reliable, and most effective way I found to play games outside Steam on Linux, be it a pirated game, a DRM-free game, or any other types of games.
DISCLAIMER: this video is made purely for educational purposes, which does not include the incentive for piracy. This is merely a way to show the Linux community how to do something that they could do on Windows. I have over 250 games on Steam, I own multiple videogame consoles in which I bought dozens of games on each one of them. I also paid for the game I'm showcasing in this video.

[@aqua-bery]

Education is _really_ important

[@gabrielslab]

I cannot see a reality where we live without education

[@somegeezer4058]

Yeah it gets you a good job that will enable you to buy games.

[@Broly_1]

@@gabrielslabtry gameimage packer

[@BrancoDemonio]

@@gabrielslab só de ver seu desktop, já imaginei que fosse br. forças para tu parça.

[@JoseLucasd]

​@@somegeezer4058even with a job i dont ser any rational reason to pay more than 50$ in a game.

[@robinbernardinis]

Nice tutorial for something I will never use, ever ; ) ! Before this tutorial, I would have, hypothetically, tried to launch a game a game via Lutris, but I think it would probably not work as well. Of course, I wouldn't know, since I would never ever try anything like this, ever, obviously.

[@RenCode]

what a great *educational* video, i am now going to *purchase* the game and play it

[@outmane5011]

as someone from the third world I would love to thank you for the education

[@spotlessmind9263]

There are two other worlds?!?!

[@ariel_chess]

​@@spotlessmind9263There is more than north america even

[@outmane5011]

@@spotlessmind9263 nah there are two the 1st and 3rd (we don't talk about the second)

[@HaxGuru]

​@@outmane5011 Just like the middle child

[@Xray_OS]

i play pirated games through lutris, literally is the same process that you do on windows when you pirate a game, except for the fact that you have even more options in lutris than in normal windows, and the best is that now lutris can use proton and proton ge officially so is even easier to pay all your pirated games lol

[@arafatzahan3697]

0:45 Man realy made a 6 and half minute tutorial to flex on us with his girlfriend, lol.

[@gabrielslab]

loool that ain't it buddy 😂
it literally just came out when I was improvising what to say lol

[@JohnLucasV]

How is having a girlfriend even a flex? That's so weird.

[@arafatzahan3697]

​@@JohnLucasVyeah true having a boyfriend is the real flex.

[@gabrielslab]

@@JohnLucasV I think they were just joking because in the Linux community there is a very old joke of Linux users not having a partner because they are too busy tinkering with the OS. Of course, I was absolutely not flexing, I don't consider having a partner a flex in any way really.

[@arafatzahan3697]

@@gabrielslab You got it dude, yeah it just just a funny jab... I thought it's pretty obvious.. apparently not haha.

[@tiger_of_kai]

Free education is the primary human right.

[@pace-ik9bj]

really good EDUCATIONAL video

[@aarav6891]

Love the educational video's
Please keep educating us

[@J1sol]

Thank you for the useful tutorial! Keep up the good work.

[@user-xi4os2jw7y]

got gta sa from a totally legal site a few days ago, been playing it nonstop since than, its so much fun, i wanted to switch back to linux lately but was reluctant because i thought i would lose the ability to play it. you really can do anything on linux these days. thank you for this my friend

[@Reed0-]

This is the only reason I've been avoiding moving to Linux, you have been very helpful...hrm i use arch btw

[@sudiprajbanshiii]

Thanks for educating 🙏

[@kairu_b]

Very educational, thanks!

[@Anonicus]

Yeah I'm learning A LOT in this EDUCATIONAL video.
I will NOT be doing this, I'm TOTALLY just watching this video to Learn how it's done and TOTALLY not gonna do this.

[@nonechico]

Thank's for the tutorial meu maninho

[@BuenoSama-xk7re]

Valeu pelo tutorial Gabriel!

[@gabrielslab]

De nada!

[@icarorodrigo96]

Meu caro, que conteúdo foda!
Definitivamente aprendi muito!

[@atakan4112]

I loved your edicational video

[@shravangudupa]

It totally worked on my Fedora 40 KDE plasma 6

[@zerotactix5739]

Thanks for this.

[@steamconnected6671]

Heroic look cool , i need to use it but do proton available for it?

[@lizer5253]

you can use proton for heroic, i'm using protonge

[@javiergonzalez-longoria1102]

Worked just fine with Fallout 3

[@nottsoserious]

Thanks for education

[@bruno0898]

Excelente vídeo educacional.

[@devvini1526]

Muito bom tutorial e ótima pronuncia my friend

[@didistutterrr]

gotta love the education

[@claudiodiaz9752]

It doesn't work on the flatpak version, because flatpak sandboxes the applications by default.

[@FengLengshun]

Huh? I use Flatpak Heroic and Bottles all the time. It works just fine. Granted, I always use SteamUnlocked so I don't need to install anything, and I always put stuff in ~/Games ~/Downloads or ~/Documents

[@stefani0tv621]

0:15 completely for education purposes... Yes man ofc

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Is there a big difference when it comes to performance when gaming on Linux compared to windows?

[@hondurasen3632]

Mostly u will get a performance boost because linux is lighter by its design

[@m0r4ag]

As far as I know is nearly the same, sometimes one is 5% or so better than the other depending on the game but is practically the same

[@Azertyyys]

​@@hondurasen3632nah

[@user-dz3ph7dl4m]

codec is probably that you chose regular proton rather than GE version.

[@aiduck8307]

Hello.
So, I switched to Linux - Ubuntu recently and am now trying to play some games. I have followed this tutorial, but when i try to launch the game, it starts to load and then automatically gets closed. This issue also exists in Lutris. If anyone knows about this, then please let me know.

[@Sitwayen]

Replies to you get deleted

[@piturripi]

Long live piracy my friend!

[@gabrielslab]

Or better yet, democratized access to culture!

[@SpyrosFilippopoulos]

ngl so far i just right clicked the executable and run it through the proton prefix of a game i finished already

[@TheDarkAngel13]

Can you help me get Hackintosh too? I've been trying to get this for a year now.. AMD CPU + GPU

[@user-ks1oh2wx6o]

Pretty sure apple is pretty much shutting down hackintoshes since they're making mac os only work on apple hardware

[@m0r4ag]

A Hackintosh could be risky for your apple account, be careful

[@Syrusaki]

Mas como jogar na versao Steam? exemplo: Elden Ring, com o mod online, como faz?

[@m0r4ag]

Usually the _funny_ games don’t have online support.
The official steam games can be launched using directly steam with very quick and easy setting, you should look for “enabling proton on linux”.
For Elden Ring you have “gold” support which means should work, you can look for “ProtonDB” and search for the games you’re interested in, protondb is a list of games with rates on how well they work on linux.
I don’t know about the mod usage.

[@MaskMajor]

Oh wow well, i guess this does it, im sold! Im so going to move to linux after windows 10 dies, oh yea also it was very educational! I feel very educated!

[@whatismyname5151]

nice tutorial thanks for the info! Very helpful

[@gabrielslab]

Thank you!

[@LionDen]

E se o jogo já tiver sido instalado através do windows?

[@m0r4ag]

I think it shouldn’t be a problem as long as you have access to the exe, doesn’t matter if you installed it on windows or linux, is the same .exe still

[@oimateusaqui]

Are you brazilian??

[@Thegameshow879]

Lutris is good if you want to install game from setup

[@madhur7]

Good video

[@tapuzina2329]

how to i get the file of the game that i want to install?

[@subgivtara]

Pirate.. ugh... i mean legitly obtain it

[@icetroll00]

I just use Lutris cuz that's what I've been using for the past couple of years since I've switched to Linux.

[@alternatuber6698]

OFC this is just an EDUCATION! 🤭

[@nikhilmaan9498]

thx man thx for real

[@autovozo5725]

Its that easy? Thanks man

[@jamal1aarab]

Education

[@MohsenTheKnight21]

we are sailing the seven seas with this one lol

[@AshwinSKumar]

Can you make a video for mac?

[@m0r4ag]

Mac is a very very different topic so I don’t think he could

[@AshwinSKumar]

@@m0r4ag okay

[@gabrielhenrikk]

Bom tutorial

[@ihatenewjersey1981]

1:45 Does that install the latest stable version of wine?

[@8lec_R]

Me who doesn't use Linux or has pirated a game in a long while... Hmmm interesting

[@fabricio4794]

You Forgot to Say that you are using Nobara Linux...Best Gaming Distto Ever

[@gabrielslab]

Except it's not Nobara, it's Fedora Workstation

[@degenerate8228]

Bazzite is better

[@DELOREAN389]

will it run on my 486 ? 🤔

[@gabrielslab]

Well, guess there's only one way to find out!

[@markov_komarov]

ill use this knowledge responsibly (lies)

[@joaoalex3541]

good content, I bet you are BR

[@gabrielslab]

Obrigado, e sim rs

[@RTVwithVardin]

Man I love education

[@ggreg142]

Thanks, I owe you my liver

[@gauntled05]

Daora

[@cosmin1128]

Good "educational" tutorial. Gonna fire my torrent site up (shhh)

[@pedi-kun3978]

thanks this will be great help before October 2025 since my computer cannot install windows 11 and i also hate windows 11

[@wesze_kluzek]

i have more fps on windows when playing pirated games

[@gabrielslab]

In this case I think you should use Windows then. Depending on your setup, it also might be that you have something configured wrong on Linux.

[@WoodyWilliams]

Ha! You're cute :) Piracy is bad, mkay?

[@gabrielslab]

😅😅

[@izazali9988]

Cry.

[@denniszerkel]

☠️ yargh

[@prinnydood7920]

Lutris is better ho
I reccomended it ho

[@Beryesa.]

Sometimes you're forced to use other such _versions_ of the game you *OWN* because the sh!tty company decided to nuke the Linux version (ahem, EA) of a 10+ yo game 🫠

[@zerotactix5739]

What game is that?

[@Beryesa.]

@@zerotactix5739 need for speed most wanted 😬😅

[@retardo2263]

Beatiful