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Not trying to clickbait but is this the end for kernel-level anti-cheat? (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft has officially announced its intent to move security measures out of the kernel, following the Crowdstrike disaster a few short months ago. The removal of kernel access for security solutions would likely revolutionise running Windows games on the Steam Deck and other Linux systems.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 months ago (3 children)

game developers and publishers are hesitant to enable Linux compatibility,

And I am hesitant to spend money on their games.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

running linux is a great way to automatically filter out most of the shit games, if it won't even run in proton then you generally have to be doing some bullshit with the code and thus aren't worth my time and certainly not my money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But us in the VR community is still Windoze.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

VR games work just fine in proton, as long as you're on Vive or Index.

It's the the headsets that don't support linux, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never got my Vive to work well in Linux, even though I'm using X which supposedly still is better for gaming that Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of kinks around VR on linux. Wayland has been better in my experience, but I still can't believe SteamVR on linux just doesn't have power management for the base stations implemented. Like, it works, there's a fucking python script that can do it! But not via SteamVR.

I use an app on my phone to turn my base stations on and off.

Here's hoping the Deck and whatever Deckard turns out to be means Valve is in the process of improving the situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For the Index and 2.0 Basestation it's supposed to work for a while now https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/320#issuecomment-1835581128

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The VR community is a fairly small niche market

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We are small but still exists...

Once there is a way to properly play VR games without too much configuration, I will jump back to Linux. But for now, Windows 11 IOT edition is not too bad. Specifically the IOT edition without all the telemarketing and CoPilot crap.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also more than half of games with AC do in fact run on linux right now, and the world hasn't ended.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hasn't ended yet, as soon as we reach 75% the simulation will end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The second someone finds a way to hack the simulator it becomes uninteresting. Like when I cheat in GTA SP and then suddenly never play it again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I would reply with something like "Arrrr matey" but new games aren't even worth pirating anymore.