Post #3780536
2026-07-13 07:42 UTC
You shouldn’t need a full VM running Proton. I’d rather use sonething more lightweight, i.e. sandboxing.
Most likely Windows games which are malicious don’t have a way to break out of Linux containment, so if you run all games as a different user with no access to your other files or inside a sandbox, there should be a negligible risk.
The chance of a Windows malware using Linux sandbox exploits is very very very small.
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@nootux@lemmy.ml 2026-07-13 09:01
Firejail is definitely something I’ll be looking into on the sandboxing front as it may be the better solution from the sounds of it. How does a sandbox compare to running in a VM? Technically speaking, is the VM safer? Though I appreciate the difference in this scenario may be very small.