Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
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JensSpahnpasta
GamesThe part that annoys me most is not one, but three people I know blame Linux for not supporting the invasive anti-cheat, and not the developers.
The weird thing is that people actually buy and play the games that requires them.
That is not weird at all.
Yeah, they are the weird ones. Not the guy who doesn't understand how someone could care more about playing the game than dying on some hill that has little affect on their lives.
Weird 🙄
People just want to play videogames. How would they know if the anticheat has kernel-level access without going out of their way to research it?
Because it causes problems. It makes you install an extra thing, it sometimes causes crashes or conflicts with other programs, and it often prevents you from playing on Linux (which is becoming more mainstream in the form of the Steam Deck and competitors).
That's what I find weird, no matter if it's a vacuum cleaner, a game or a pair of jeans of course I'm gonna research the product (and the company producing it) before I buy.
"What the hell is a kernel? Like... popcorn?"
You severely overestimate the layperson.
Nah, I don't expect people to research. I just find it weird that they don't. Both the first link in Googles search and the AI overview of Google explains that question as long as you add anticheat into the sentence.
Yeah, but let's be honest: If all your friends are playing the newest Call of Duty, you buy that and play with your friends.
People who know what a kernel is likely don't have friends who play the newest call of duty
Sometimes concessions have to be made for cross platform play with friends.
Last time me and my friends played Call of Duty it was LAN hosted with punkbuster inactive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty_2)
Also water is wet and the sky is blue
