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None explicitly support piracy of course. However, I know the Switch is very difficult to conduct piracy on. You might be lucky depending on the firmware, whether you could hack it, but you can't pirate on a Switch without hacking the firmware.
I personally would go with the Steam deck or the Legion (Linux and Windows respectively), pirating there will be relatively the same as you are used to on PC.
Can confirm for the Steam Deck! Not that it supports it explicitly, but Valve doesn't really seem to care what you do with your hardware lol.
The only limitations are that it's Linux, so you might run into some trouble with Denuvo/Hypervisor and stuff like that. HV cracks allegedly work on Linux now, but I haven't tried it yet.
It's easier on Linux than it is on Windows, and also safer too.
Good to know it's easier! I assumed it'd be safer because Linux generally is lol. Presumably because Denuvo is kernel-level and Linux doesn't let it fuck about with the kernel or something like that?
Nah Denuvo isn't kernel level, at least not at the moment. The method used on Linux operates entirely in userland using a custom proton build and the cpuid fault instruction. On older systems that don't support cpuid faulting they do use a kernel module, but this kernel module is much simpler than the Windows HV, it only emulates cpuid faulting and doesn't do anything else.
Or get a modchip. Works great for me.
Don't try doing the install yourself unless you have microsoldering experience. I killed a Switch when I tried it myself.
For the switch you need the v1 before they patched the hardware insecurities. https://ismyswitchpatched.com/
Switch has MiG Flash. It doesn’t allow updating but most Nintendo consoles didn’t allow updating. So, you can play well-developed games but janky buggy games corrected after launch maybe not.