• siha@feddit.ukEnglish
    1 month

    TLDR:

    Try your luck with Wine; if that doesn’t work, try Proton by adding it as a game on Steam; if that doesn’t work, try setting it up in a VM.

    If you have to use a VM, try virt-manager. If you have questions about setting it up and getting the best performance, then AI is genuienly really good for that.

    Other concerns:

    It actually sounds like the software you want to pirate provides something no other software does. You also haven’t mentioned why it’s “morally warranted” to pirate it, or why you think the price is “egregious for what it is”. From what I understand it’s not a subscription, and $220 is a pretty standard price for professional software.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22 days

      I like using qemu with quickget personally for quickly seeing up VMs. You can literally just be like quickget ubuntu 24.04 or whatever and it’ll do all the setup for you.

      It can do Mac and Windows VMs too, but they take a little bit of fiddling.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
    1 month

    Hate to be “that guy”, but you can probably make the FOSS alternative work for you. Create a feature/bug issue on the project(s) explaining the problem in detail. It might be easy to fix.

    You can also try to fix it yourself, or ask a programmer friend to help. Friends often like helping friends.

    For a smaller investment (eg. one month of ChatGPT Plus for Codex, Kimi, whatever) and you can probably fix all the niggly things that you don’t like yourself. Just don’t go opening pull requests for code changes you don’t understand - it won’t be appreciated.

      • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
        1 month

        I read the other replies. I was purposefully giving you an alternative, rather than repeating what others said. How you choose to receive it is up to you. Good luck, I guess.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
        1 month

        Welcome to lemmy - where nobody cares about you or your question and just wants to yap their opinion, because they feel so smart and morally superior.

  • toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1 month

    I never tried pirating native linux programs, but windows stuff worked well for me. Use some sort of wine prefix manager for this, like bottles. I used PlayOnLinux, but its an old buggy mess and there are modern alternatives nowadays. There is also umu-launcher and stuff that uses umu, which is more for games, but also works well for programs.

    The most trouble I had was with installers and setup tools that need certain files to be in certain locations. There is a mod manager for Dawn of War 2 thats an exe that needs files from an installed game, and it was very bad on linux, with missing fonts and crashes. I got it to work with some fiddling however. On WineDB and ProtonDB there is guaranteed at least one person who had any given problem and has an arcane solution, or at least a bug report with lots of information, so try there if you are stuck. Good Luck!

    Edit: Here is the WineDB link, seems to work well, but it was only tested up to version 17. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2793

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    29 days

    i have no issue pirating most games and a few windows apps.

  • rolandtb303@lemmy.ml
    30 days

    if you’re gonna pirate VST plugins, make sure you have all the essential windows dependencies installed (.NET Framework, Visual C++ Runtime off of the top of my head), but other than that it’s mostly fine. ironically in some cases pirating things are actually the better experience on linux rather than buying the thing legit and trying to install it using hacky workarounds cause the devs of the software did hacky bs. heck i even pirated a vst just to listen to its keygen music. worth it

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29 days

    Not related to piracy at all, but I’ve managed to play some old games like “Max Payne” butter smooth on a orange pi 5 max. Considering your main concern of linux able to run windows software.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    29 days

    Torrent clients work on everything. We didn’t need VPNs when I used them because nobody cared much back then. Linux works fine, but I hear you need to attach you client to the VPN or you’ll just be exposed. Unrelated to Linux, some people recommend “seed boxes” (cloud server to seed and receive materials), but I don’t know where to get one or what any specifics. I think it might just be a type of VPS.

  • Hund@feddit.nu
    29 days

    Software piracy is the very reason that Microsoft got all the market share and had the power to ruin it for Linux.

    Either pay for the software, use free alternatives or write your own software.

  • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
    29 days

    So you’re on fedora, is there a specific keygen or cracked version of chessbase you wanna run?

    I can make a vm and check it out later on when I get home.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1 month

    TBH for me the only proprietary software worth pirating is Apple’s GarageBand. There’s currently no pirated version. I’m hoping that open source alternative continue to improve.

    Otherwise there’s nothing proprietary that’s worth pirating for me. I can’t imagine pirating chess. It’s among the most basic apps possible. Have you checked out lichess? The android app is decent, the website looks good, and there’s at least one desktop app too.