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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.

But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.

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[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I know that the market verdict is "eh who cares", but I really dont think anyone should think that invasive kernel-level anticheat is at all acceptable.

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[–] helix@feddit.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

There probably would to be a kernel API to check for anticheat measures. Even then, the OS being FOSS means that you can easily create rootkits, obviously. So secure boot etc will also be a requirement for Linux anticheat.

The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I'd much rather have Valve convince them VAC is a good idea than to have them use intrusive anticheat measures or make Linux worse.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago*

The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I

Or allowing self hosted servers. With actual mods that just ban people who are being jerks, and basic anticheat tools shipped to them.

Whatever the issue and solution, the current state of the gaming market still makes mass linux gaming kind of impossible. Not from the anticheat games specifically as much as the OEM problem.

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