• steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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    1 day ago

    This seems worse than just dual booting Windows, which you’d end up having to dual boot Linux if the reason you got into Linux was to get away from sketchy permissions.

    I don’t like the normalization of this type of anticheat for Linux, and if other games adopt this it seems like this would lead to a worse situation than having games not support Linux if more Linux games start adopting this EACv2 requirement.

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      23 hours ago

      This isn’t putting anything sleazy in your kernel. Please take a look at my reply to another comment.

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        20 hours ago

        Your reply doesn’t make me sure if it is running on a similar privilege level to root.

        I don’t use Linux to give that level of trust to anticheat, and I don’t see the benefit at that point of dual booting Windows instead.

        So are you saying it doesn’t get root type privileges? And can be as trusted to not be as invasive as anticheat is on windows being able to look through your entire system?

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          20 hours ago

          So are you saying it doesn’t get root type privileges? And can be as trusted to not be as invasive as anticheat is on windows being able to look through your entire system?

          From my understanding, that’s right. My understanding is very shallow though, so you should look into it yourself if you really care enough. I think the links I posted are enough of a starting point.

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            19 hours ago

            There’s some more comments I’ve been reading on /r/linux_gaming and there has been some saying it is getting root type privileges and skepticism behind it.

      • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 hours ago

        Even assuming what you said is right: fucking link the other comment, no one is gonna hunt another random comment that we don’t even know it’s right