Honestly pirating through the browser has gotten so convenient that I can see why people don’t bother with torrents anymore. I’ve known about torrents for decades, but these days, there are sites you can instantly stream any movie or TV show in 1080p with subtitles right from your browser. No need to add it to a queue or wait for it to download, no need to fiddle with srt files or resync subs… and for gaming, OMG. If someone has a steamdeck they can visit any number of reliable sites found on fmhy and download preinstalled/cracked game folders right from the steamdeck browser, extremely fast direct download speeds, and then they just have to add the exe file to steam as a non steam game. No need to run an installer through Lutris, or free up enough space for the installer and installation. Way faster and way simpler. Torrents are great for archival purposes but direct downloads through the browser are so much more convenient, and they pop up faster than they can be shutdown.
To be fair, it’s easier to emulate Switch stuff on an ARM64 device like the Steam Deck (or a Mac) because the games themselves are not that far removed from the platform. The Switch itself is just a modified Nvidia Shield tablet, and the OS was originally an Android fork (apparently, no production version was, but before it released that was the plan, since they were and did use an Android tablet). Translating to x86-64 is more work (but also not impossible because in 2016 when the Switch launched, it wasn’t a terribly complicated machine to start with).
Honestly pirating through the browser has gotten so convenient that I can see why people don’t bother with torrents anymore. I’ve known about torrents for decades, but these days, there are sites you can instantly stream any movie or TV show in 1080p with subtitles right from your browser. No need to add it to a queue or wait for it to download, no need to fiddle with srt files or resync subs… and for gaming, OMG. If someone has a steamdeck they can visit any number of reliable sites found on fmhy and download preinstalled/cracked game folders right from the steamdeck browser, extremely fast direct download speeds, and then they just have to add the exe file to steam as a non steam game. No need to run an installer through Lutris, or free up enough space for the installer and installation. Way faster and way simpler. Torrents are great for archival purposes but direct downloads through the browser are so much more convenient, and they pop up faster than they can be shutdown.
Thats why Steamdeck is called the Ultimate Nintendo Piracy device, Valve made it for this
To be fair, it’s easier to emulate Switch stuff on an ARM64 device like the Steam Deck (or a Mac) because the games themselves are not that far removed from the platform. The Switch itself is just a modified Nvidia Shield tablet, and the OS was originally an Android fork (apparently, no production version was, but before it released that was the plan, since they were and did use an Android tablet). Translating to x86-64 is more work (but also not impossible because in 2016 when the Switch launched, it wasn’t a terribly complicated machine to start with).