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Wow that’s huge. I hope this makes it way into proton. It’s getting to the point where windows is going to be mostly irrelevant for gaming, and ideally, for everything!

Mac is a better experience for every single thing other than gaming (that may change soon too). My steam deck is an amazing mobile gaming device. I’m hoping one day I can actually just steamos on my gaming pc and dump my last vestigial windows install.

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Proton is a configuration system for wine.

The only big problem left is kernel-aware anticheat. Ideally, we would just stop allowing game companies to hijack the windows kernel in the first place...

Perhaps we can run (emulate?) the kernel drivers in user-space.

That's known in the business as "bypassing the anti-cheat" and will get you banned the moment the anti-cheat provider notices what you're doing, even if you aren't actually cheating. If you tamper with, sandbox or subvert the AC in any way then they have to assume you're cheating since any signals they get from the AC can no longer be trusted.

If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them either. Their anti-cheat is essentially malware.

Yes, but the more important point is that you are forced into a position of compromise. The only options are for you to accept their malware, or for you to not participate. There is no practical way to convince them to remove their malware requirement.

My point is, you that you shouldn't participate, becasue why would you trust them not to use that malware for malicious purpose.

Because you want to play Valorant, that's why.

This is like when a guy said to RMS, "I have to use proprietary video editing software to do my job" and RMS was like "Then find another job."

IF LINUX CANNOT RUN THE SOFTWARE PEOPLE WANT TO RUN, IT IS A POOR OPERATING SYSTEM.

We've been telling open source folks this since the 90s. It's time for them to listen and learn.

I don't want to play Valorant :) Running malware because of wanting to play it sounds like a very bad trade off either way.

but other people want thats the point

This is why Microsoft needs to stop signing anticheat drivers or otherwise require them to be sandboxed. AC providers will have to give up if platforms refuse to cooperate with them.

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