can nix for gaming pirates lead to easy piracy

nix allows for flakes which are 100% reproducible (ie. you copy paste a flake it would do the intended stuff only) , this make me realize that now we can have flakes for games like do you want inscryption , sure add this flake and this would install all dependencies and lutris etc. and you just have to link us to the gog-games.to / fitgirl-repack / dodi-repack variant (preferrably , gog-games.to since you can verify it with gog) (i have picked only the goat of gaming piracy from megathread) , imo this can give huge boost to gaming in linux and wine is literally really close to giving native performance and you wont even see the difference

the same logic can be applied to ms excel , powerpoint etc. but i dont see the point after using libreoffice (literally the best thing ever)

Gooey0210,

In my life I love two things- piracy, and nix

HouseWolf, (edited )

As a newer Linux user Nix both fascinates and terrifies me.

I’ve been running EndeavourOS for a few months and haven’t had much trouble getting cracked games running through Lutris. Most of my cracked games are older 2000s/early 2010s titles, and at most they need a community patch similar to running the game on Windows 10 and changing a setting in Winetricks.

Barzaria,

This idea is brilliant! How hard would you say swapping from using apt to learning and swapping to nix be? This is a serious question.

lupec,

That’s a great idea, I’d absolutely love it myself. Something like adding a flake input and it giving you an overlay with reproducible packages for a lot of games, I suppose. Not sure about feasibility but it sure sounds enticing!

Your average user probably wouldn’t be too thrilled about it, but I’m sure Nix nerds would be all over it lol.

WilfordGrimley,

I think Flatpak or AppImages would be a more appropriate distribution method, as much as I love nix and flakes.

Ozy,

I would second flatpak and app images, not everyone is on NixOS, and I would like to not use NixOS any time soon as it doesn’t appeal to me the way it works.

WilfordGrimley,

The neat and confusing thing about nix and flakes is that you don’t need to be using the OS to benefit from using nix as a home manager/ package installer.

Fleek is a good example.

randomaside,
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Wouldn’t it be cool if you could store Flatpaked/appimage games on a USB drive indefinitely so then you could plug it into another machine and simply launch the game from it?

You know, like a video game console!

Donut,

I only understand half of these words but I noticed Inscryption, so you got me.

What are flakes and what does it mean to be reproducible?

steersman2484,

Nix is a functional programming language / package manager, which allows you to build software reproducible.

For example, one developer has version 1.1 of a dependency installed and a second developer has version 1.2 of the same dependency installed. Both build the software from source and get a different result.

This can lead to “but it works on my machine” bugs. Nix mitigates this and ensures that all devs have the exact same versions and the build process produces the same output.

In theory these kind of bugs can now only happen because of hardware fault.

For game piracy this should streamline the installation process. You can just run one command and the game works and you don’t have to tinker around to find out why it does not work for you.

Trincapinones,

Friendly reminder that sometimes the native version runs worse than proton/doesn’t have all the dlcs.

We already have the john cena repacks, but it’s not user friendly to set up the environment so it could be a great alternative

squid_slime,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

Jc141 are pretty good as far as Linux distribution goes, dwarfs was a strange chose at first but actually makes sense. For anyone wanting to use they’re scripts then they just need to follow the github guide

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s actually not that hard to setup

Trincapinones,

Maybe I’m dumb because it took me 2 hours of my time to set it up

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I think you used an older stage of the project. If you look at the setup guide right now, it’s like 3 or 4 commands chained together. Also Undertaker141 makes browsing way easier.

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