[–] 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I've used everything from XP to 11. Win 7 was definitely, and by far, the most comfortable for me to use. 8 was hot garbage, 10 was tolerable, and 11 made me switch to Linux a week in.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I am. I run cachyos which I run most of my steam games from. If I pirate something I do it in a VM to test it out, and if I like it then I buy it on steam/GOG.

    The VM has very little performance loss either because they're just that good now or because I have a pretty good pc I'm not sure. I also run games like BanderLord in a VM so I can mod with vortex. (Yes the setup is very stupid, but it's a glass castle and I'm scared to move anything)

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    There are relatively few people who "crack" the games and the community around it is very verbal. Some people go deep on inspecting things, and if something gets found they're added to a list of untrusted sources. From what I've seen it's hard to get that trust back.

    So yeah it's definitely a risk, but not a super dangerous one. Especially if you use Linux and a VM

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