there's a group called johncena141 who do linux specific repacks. They put the windows game in a dwarfs read only compressed archive, and then have an editable layer on top of it where saves and changes get written. The windows games are put into a wine wrapper and then you can run them while they're still compressed. It's pretty cool, but can be a bit finicky. Getting dwarfs installed can be a pain depending on your system. I find their stuff can be very hit or miss, but I like that they exist.
Besides that, ymmv with all the other repacks. Sometimes fitgirl works fine for me, sometimes it fucks up completely. Same goes for dodi. though I've found dodi to be a bit more reliable on wine than fitgirl.
That's my two cents on stuff.
Who cracked or repacked it doesn't make a difference, how much the game itself supports Linux does.
Idk I usually have problem with fitgirl repacs so maybe for Linux are better alternatives
If you don't have bandwidth or storage restrictions, I'll always recommend you pull directly from a scene release or a clean steam dump instead of a repack.
You can find games like this one in rutracker which require no installation, decompression or dwarfs thing, only the files. Just like what you'd have after installing a repack
Semi-related but do you happen to know where I can find the guide to rutracker?
It is not fully private. You can browse without an account but cant use the site's search. If you don't want to create an account you can use a search engine like duckduckgo like adding
site:rutracker.orgto your queryNo I mean there was a guide on how to use rutracker or something
EDIT: Turns out it has been deleted, at least the one I found in the past
On steam deck I mainly use dodi repack. From what I heard fit girl often do mistakes in repackages. (If someone is curious I can look for the game I had problem with, from memory that was a simple steamid missing in a crack) The trouble is once a version is out you can't patch it.
