Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming?
termus@beehaw.org 2 months agoI get avoiding those games on principal… but is there any harm that can come from playing those through Linux?
Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming?
termus@beehaw.org 2 months agoI get avoiding those games on principal… but is there any harm that can come from playing those through Linux?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Its a kernel level rootkit, so if you have that installed your computer is no longer yours. They could in theory, read your RAM and use it to read encryption keys and have full access to your system and you would never know.
termus@beehaw.org 2 months ago
A kernel level rootkit for windows though. What is it going to have access to in Linux? Isn’t it just reading Proton’s windows files that are created for each game ran through it?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 months ago
You may be right, but I don’t know enough about proton to say it’s a well isolated sandboxed environment. I’d rather not have it on my PC at all.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They won’t run on proton. “Kernel-level” means it’s well below the level that Proton runs at.
termus@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Helldivers 2 runs fine through Proton with it’s anti-cheat. It was claimed to be kernel level.