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I love proton, I sure you like it too, but it's not an existential threat to Windows in any way.

People always take the path of least resistance which is Windows on the laptop/desktop that they bought at Best Buy. They won't reinstall their OS because they don't know what it is.

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It won’t affect the average user, but the only thing keeping some people on windows is games that use anticheats like BattleEye or EasyAntiCheat.

With proton a lot of games now run quite nicely asides from the ones that require anticheat systems.

Right, but now you're trying to solve a completely different, unrelated problem. The problem with this particular situation is that it hits the average user, not folks who already know what ufs is, or are mad enough to install linux just so they can game with proton.

(and no, already using linux as daily driver doesn't count, none of those folks were even remotely impacted by this windows-manufacturer-signed rootkit-on-windows problem.)

Windows has such a diverse set of users, I don't think any one thing could ever be an existential threat to Windows, not even Windows being unseated as the most popular OS for PC gamers. But nonetheless, that is clearly one battle Microsoft intends to win, even if they could afford to lose it.

They might buy a Mac, though. As far as evil software megacorps go, I kind of prefer people using Apple products to using MS products.

How do you feel about the monitoring of every executable you run, when and where?

Are you suggesting that MS does this or Apple?

Is this known behavior documented somewhere I can learn more about?

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

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