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Proton's good-ish. But if you want to play a lot of AAA games it's a non-starter especially if they have invasive kernel anti-cheat.
by voidfunc 1y ago
Proton's good-ish. But if you want to play a lot of AAA games it's a non-starter especially if they have invasive kernel anti-cheat.
- autoexec 1y agoThankfully I don't want and will never want any games that infect my systems with "anti-cheat" malware so I see the lack of support for it as a feature.
- naikrovek 1y agoplaying any game with an invasive kernel anti-cheat is a non-starter on its own. no game is worth that.
- jcalvinowens 1y agoI tend to play indie games, but I've never had anti-cheat problems. Everything happily runs on 6.17-rc5 right now.
- ginko 1y agoWhy would you willingly install games with invasive kernel anti-cheat? That's unacceptable both on Linux or Windows.
- jawilson2 1y agoWhat would you suggest to my kids that game with their friends and want to play Rocket League or Fortnite?
- Marsymars 1y agoA console?
- lurk2 1y agoSaying “no.”
- lawlessone 1y agoI only let my children play SuperTuxKart, and read them OSS licenses when i tuck them in at night.
- voidfunc 1y agoBecause people want to play fun games with their friends and sometimes playing games with kernel anti-cheat is a requirement?
- polski-g 1y agoMicrosoft needs to provide their own anti-cheat hooks and block any kernel-level mods entirely.
- lupusreal 1y agoAAA games are overproduced crap that compensate with aggressive marketing.
- voidfunc 1y agoOpinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
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- akimbostrawman 1y agoTo quote myself because it's getting tiresome I wish people would stop bringing this up which has not been true for years. Around 40-50% of kernel level anti cheats work and are supported (in user space). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050913 Not to mention that AAA or any games with anti cheat are in the minority of all games.