So all that developers need to do is… have a linux version.

To repeat something I sort of said in response to someone else: If a publisher is scummy enough to have kernel-level anticheat in their game, they’re not going to give up kernel access just to appease a tiny minority of gamers.

Take Valorant for example. The one thing I know about Valorant is that cheats for Tarkov don’t work if Valorant is installed on your pc. This tells me that Valorant’s anticheat is doing things at all times, even when the game isn’t running, and I’m not ok with that.

Personally, I recommend just not playing those games. I’ve been having a great time with warframe and factorio. If I really feel the urge for a competitive arena shooter, I’ll boot up unreal tournament classic and play against bots. For those who don’t like my choices, there’s tons of other options. I digress.

In order for OP’s ask to actually be fullfilled in the manner I interpret to be desired, kernel-level anticheat needs to die alltogether. I see 2 ways for this to happen, neither of which are likely: A) Microsoft secures the windows kernel so that it can’t be modified, thus forcing standard practice to change. B) Linux overtakes windows as the dominant pc OS, thus forcing standard practice to change.

Can i not bitch about how shit things have been? Or that these fixes shouldn’t even be necessary because they could have just not fucked it up in the first place?

Does nothing for existing cables.

i just didn’t want to say 25 years ago and have someone ‘um akshuly’ me about when emulation started getting viable.

Fiction has utterly failed to predict how stupid reality has become.

How many stories have we seen where a billionaire ceo becomes president? In fiction, they were always handsome, charming, highly intelligent, so on and so forth. Reality though, oooof.

Anticheats on Linux don’t have kernel access

Yeah, I know. I’d like it to stay that way. Furthermore, this is also why games with kernel-level anticheat still don’t work on linux, despite developments in wine/proton.

The post is about anticheat that doesn’t work on linux. Non-kernel-level anticheat works fine now thanks to wine/proton. That just leaves kernel-level anticheat. If a game has kernel-level anticheat, the studio is not going to remove it for the sake of a linux version. Therefore, to be compatible with linux, they would be introducing kernel-level anticheat into a linux version. To this, I say “fuck no”.

I had no issue emulating n64 games on my piece of shit machine almost 20 years ago. What even is this?

No. It’s a video game. Publishers have no business being in my kernel.

I remember when you could buy a 2x4 for a buck. It wasn’t that many years ago.

Warframe. trying to get my noob friend up to current content so we can experience 1999 together.

The amount of effort for such imperceptible improvements is insane.

Also insane is how shit modern games run without multi thousand dollar hardware, even if you turn down settings, but then it also looks like ass in addition to running like shit.

is there an easy way to do this that doesn’t require me to understand how github works?

If steam goes down I’m sailing the high seas from then on.

our fanatical obsession with convenience (and corporations exploiting that) is what created this mess.

Autopay is so expected now that many subscriptions simply don’t offer options to pay per month.

i went from windows to mint, having a good time with it. This isn’t my first attempt at making the switch, but it is the last.

One of my previous attempts was with Ubuntu, and it looks like it would be easier if I was familiar with mac.

as a warframe player, it boggles my mind that bungie can’t figure this out.

reddit sucks but lemmy barely exists. I run out of things to scroll here really fast.

not a problem for people with nothing left to lose.

it upsets me how accurate that description is.