As a formal pirate, Linux is as good or better than Windows to run pirated games, the problem of "linux being harder to pirate than windows" is that we use Wine to run Windows programs on Linux, which is basically like an 'an super minimalistic windows JUST to run .exe, nothing else' and videogames needs A LOT of dependencies in order to run a game, and when those dependencies are asked in Wine, Wine cannot satisfied them and the game simply don't run. How can you fix this? In pirated games, there's a folder that I don't remember how is called, but usually brings all the dependencies needed to run the game, just install the dependencies and then run the game. In my opinion, Bottles is the best to pirate, since it even have an option to specifically install Windows dependencies.

And this community is your friend while pirating games: lemmy.world/c/linuxcracksupport