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online anti cheats are the worst thing (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless all of your friends are in the same camp as you, have fun playing not playing with them.

You won't play everything with your friends, but you probably don't have a 100% overlap in interest in which games you play anyway. Plus, a friendly suggestion goes a long way. "Hey, want to play Quake now that it just got remastered?" or "I just found this game X, and it's on sale. It's kind of like Y but with Z. Want to check it out with me?" And yes, I knew you were being hyperbolic, but I think you were serious when you were saying you were denying yourself some pleasure rather than sticking to some principle. And the value of that principle is going to vary from person to person, so I also agree with you on the "buckling", but there's just so much to play out there that one criterion is unlikely to be a deal-breaker given the breadth of games available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean you're basically saying "it's different for everyone so do what you want" which is very different than calling OP spineless for wanting to play games that don't work on Linux. I'm not arguing that the best games require Windows or that nothing else is worth playing - I'm saying it's arrogant and idiotic to insult someone over wanting to play.