It might be slow but its happening. Linux just has 1 more barrier for me to switch: games with kernal anti cheats.
“Dual boot” - I’d have to switch so often its not funny, I value my time at least a little bit ok
“Don’t play those games” - I have friends, those friends want to play those games, I want to hang out with those friends because they’re fun people
I’m torn between wether the right response to that one is wanting Linux to support them, or refuse to play games that insist on requiring malware to play their game.
There are in fact many games with functioning anticheats that do not require kernel access. And there are also plenty of games with kernel level anticheat that is easily bypassed by, and thus are full of, cheaters.
Know why? Because the difference is “does the game’s moderation team give a fuck?”.
That’s it. That’s what makes the difference. Kernel level anticheat is a band-aid solution that’s cheaper than paying a decent support team what they’re worth. And if they’d rather pay for a half-assed software solution that’s also a gaping hole in user security, then you shouldn’t play the game in the first place. I don’t negotiate with terrorists, and neither should you.
We’ve been saying that about Windows and Linux for forever.
It might be slow but its happening. Linux just has 1 more barrier for me to switch: games with kernal anti cheats.
“Dual boot” - I’d have to switch so often its not funny, I value my time at least a little bit ok “Don’t play those games” - I have friends, those friends want to play those games, I want to hang out with those friends because they’re fun people
I’m torn between wether the right response to that one is wanting Linux to support them, or refuse to play games that insist on requiring malware to play their game.
The latter. Always the latter. You know why?
There are in fact many games with functioning anticheats that do not require kernel access. And there are also plenty of games with kernel level anticheat that is easily bypassed by, and thus are full of, cheaters.
Know why? Because the difference is “does the game’s moderation team give a fuck?”.
That’s it. That’s what makes the difference. Kernel level anticheat is a band-aid solution that’s cheaper than paying a decent support team what they’re worth. And if they’d rather pay for a half-assed software solution that’s also a gaping hole in user security, then you shouldn’t play the game in the first place. I don’t negotiate with terrorists, and neither should you.
And it is slowly happening :)