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Works fine. None of my close friends know anything about piracy or more “technical” stuff, and yet everyone who was interested in the topic managed to set it up without any issues. The days of GreenLuma are long gone, huh?

That said, I have to be honest: On Windows, it works perfectly. On Linux, in my experience and that of others, little to nothing works as it should. The repo itself is full of issues related to Linux. If you use any distro, I’d recommend waiting until the program isn’t so green. If you’re on Windows, go ahead and give it a try!

I think that depends on you. Do you have enough bandwidth to share? Does your network even allow it? If the answer to both is yes, are you comfortable lending your bandwidth so strangers can download what you have to offer?

Only the most traumatized Soulseek veterans will give you speeches about “etiquette that you must follow to the letter”. Content scarcity isn’t a problem nowadays, at least in my experience. If you want to contribute, it costs you nothing to select the same folder for downloading and sharing, that’s what I do, but to each their own!

I know that for most people, “the more people sharing, the better to increase availability,” but not everyone can, for whatever reason. What you’ll probably want to do is share a few songs anyway, even if you don’t plan to do it on a large scale. Some users restrict their downloads if you don’t share files. Others restrict you if you don’t share X number of files.

Yes, I’ve heard the same and confirmed from experience everything that’s been said haha. I do like Debian and derivatives, but it’s true that more often than not, the libraries that games require are always outdated there (even using sid) which means a lot of stuff not even launching… The small scene from Linux repacks also relies on the latest libs, I remember LinuxRulez telling a lot of people to ditch Debian and use Arch instead if users wanted to use their repacks without any issues. Time flies, I miss that dude.

The general argument I’ve read in the gaming community is that many run their games through Wine anyway, so playing everything natively takes a backseat and isn’t a priority, which I suppose works too I guess… Personally I would always prefer native builds when available, but to each their own. 😅

It’s not to put down any distro, but the only things I’ve been hearing about Ubuntu for years are negative, even from people who don’t use it for gaming but for native stuff and other tasks. Poor performance, broken things… To the point that many of the rants you see about “Linux” being bad are actually negative reviews that come after using Ubuntu specifically. Of course, this is just what I’ve come across reading online, I don’t actually know if it really works thaaaat badly. That said, in my case, every game I’ve tried on my distro (including repacks) has worked without issues, except for old games. StuntGP is still the only title that won’t run no matter what I do lol.

The process of installing repacks also isn’t very different from Windows, honestly. You open the installer with Wine, install the content, and that’s it. Keep in mind there are launchers that are much simpler to use than popular options like Lutris or Heroic. Personally, Faugus is the only one I like and the only one that has worked well in my experience.

In short, the overall state of gaming is pretty good, in my opinion, and it keeps improving. I recommend checking ProtonDB to get a better idea of which titles work well and which ones don’t.

Software on the other hand, specially cracked… Well, that’s a different story. It might be a huge skill issue from me, but I ended giving up on most software I used on Windows precisely because it always ran like crap on Linux (assuming it ran on the first place). I replaced everything with FOSS alternatives years ago, but there are gaps you just can’t fill in that regard.

Am I missing something important here? Something new was achieved regarding the topic, or this is just a “hey, a reminder that valve games can be cracked too” kind of thread? Luckily, always been a common practice to archive old versions of all CS games. CS:GO in particular was always “cracked” with RevEmu (as the usual emulator of choice and shared on RIN as usual, to give one common example. Some sites used to share similar builds with every item unlocked, custom unofficial server lists and blahblah. It’s the reason why we still can play some versions from even 2012! Which is cool since they removed most maps some years later for some reason. 😔

I tried a lot of them. SongSync was the only app that gave me decent results. It can download synced lyrics like you want, but it depends on the lyrics provider. Spotify doesn’t work, Apple does but kinda broken. Stick to the other options.