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• Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kernel level anticheat. There’s very effective anticheat that is not kernel level and therefore works fine on Linux.

  practical-tips.com/…/what-are-kernel-level-anti-c…

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah thanks!

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    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No worries buddy 👍

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• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Linux doesn’t have kernel level anti cheat and I hope it remains that way, but I fear my opinion will be in the minority soon if not already.

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who would be against that? And why?

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No I think you got the message of what they were saying correct. Linux doesn’t have kernel level anti-cheat at the moment, and they’re saying that if you are a proponent of it, then don’t use Linux because it’s something we’d like to continue not having.

  There are layers of abstraction between the kernel and the userspace, and few applications need kernel level access. Anti-cheat poking around in the kernel is very invasive. I know plenty of people who equate it to spyware, myself included.

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you prevent cheating without it?

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, there’s anti cheat software that doesn’t run in the kernel. You can bypass that and still cheat, but if you’re insistent you can do that even with kernel-level anti-cheat. There’s a whole big debate on this, lots of differing opinions.

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