The majority of gamers buy into the lie that kernel level anti-cheats are more effective, when they really aren’t.
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Goodeye8@piefed.social 10 hours agoI personally know a few people who are interested in buying the Steam Machine but are having doubts because some their regular games use anticheat that doesn’t work on Linux.
I imagine the amount of people is significantly higher than you might think because the vast majority of gamers don’t care about invasive anticheat. To them Steam machine is the equivalent of a console. They probably don’t even care it runs on Linux because all they care about is being able to play games.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Jeffool@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, a lot of gamers know nothing about any of this conversation. I mean, my coworkers who game and mentioned the Stream Machine this weekend. Of course one was talking Fortnite. So that’s where we’re at. I didn’t even get into why this “console” won’t have one of the more popular games that’s literally free on every other machine including their phone. (I can already hear people saying “is a computer! It should run everything!” And then getting together when you explain how, and saying “it should be simple! It’s a console!”) It’s months away at best anyway. Who knows.
baines@lemmy.cafe 5 hours ago
entire box dedicated to avoiding fuckery, gamers beg to install fuckery
stupid mofos