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Anybody that plays games (e.g. ages 1 to 30) will be hard-pressed to use linux. It's just not an option, and dual-booting has high friction.
by apt-apt-apt-apt 10mo ago
Anybody that plays games (e.g. ages 1 to 30) will be hard-pressed to use linux. It's just not an option, and dual-booting has high friction.
- ndom91 10mo agoThis is just not true anymore. The only things that don't work anymore are a few AAA titles that use particular types of anti-cheat systems that rely on Windows kernel drivers (League of Legends is one that comes to mind). If I remember correctly, after the Crowdstrike BSOD-all-windows-instances update last year Microsoft wanted to make some changes to their kernel driver program and these anti-cheat measures on Windows might need to find a new mechanism soon anyway. That's a long way of saying, it's plausible that even that last barrier might come down sooner rather than later.
- not_a9 10mo agoAnticheat has very different requirements to antimalware. Some interesting reads on what modern anticheats do: https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-3.md https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-3.m... https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-5.md https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-5.m... https://reversing.info/posts/guardedregions/ https://reversing.info/posts/guardedregions/ https://game-research.github.io/ https://game-research.github.io/ (less in detail and less IDA pseudo)
- mixmastamyk 10mo agoSomeone didn’t read the article.