How do I know who to trust on cs.rin.ru? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Alextheacceptable@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was looking for a pretty niche indie game, but I wanted to try it out before purchasing... The only link that still works is made by a user who made their account 4 years ago and about 700 posts, but also 1 warning.

How do I know whether or not I should trust this link?

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[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Most don’t actually because Wine Is Not an Emulator. It’s a stripped down windows environment that likely doesn’t have the necessary DLLs installed or the file structure to run it. Moreover, WINE doesn’t really do things by itself. If anything did run under it, you’d see a wine-server process spin up.

It’s definitely not 100% safe, but it’s also not a gaping hole either.