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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.


Thankfully 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.


Okay, but realize a lot of people do. Until there's parity there it will be a 2nd class platform.


consoles are already a 2nd class platform and that works for a lot of people. I suppose a new 2nd class platform will make consoles a third class platform


I tend to play indie games, but I've never had anti-cheat problems. Everything happily runs on 6.17-rc5 right now.


To 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

Not to mention that AAA or any games with anti cheat are in the minority of all games.


Microsoft needs to provide their own anti-cheat hooks and block any kernel-level mods entirely.


AAA games are overproduced crap that compensate with aggressive marketing.


Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.


>Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

And we're working hard[0] to identify you based on yours.

Will wonders never cease?

[0] https://archive.ph/v0puA


Why would you willingly install games with invasive kernel anti-cheat? That's unacceptable both on Linux or Windows.


Because people want to play fun games with their friends and sometimes playing games with kernel anti-cheat is a requirement?


What would you suggest to my kids that game with their friends and want to play Rocket League or Fortnite?


I only let my children play SuperTuxKart, and read them OSS licenses when i tuck them in at night.


A console?


Saying “no.”


playing any game with an invasive kernel anti-cheat is a non-starter on its own.

no game is worth that.


Clearly many people disagree with you given the popularity of games with invasive anti-cheat.


I think many people install those games without knowing (or caring) what they're doing to their computer. That doesn't make it a good decision.




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