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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.

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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?

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

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

A console?

Saying “no.”

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

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

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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