Id like to hear thoughts. Of course us gamers hate kernel level anti cheat, but is that actually tied to secureboot?

I know some/most distros can boot in secure mode, so it doesn’t seem like an issue there.

With all the new games moving to it, looks like we will all have to sit them out or install Spyware (microshit) to play. I will opt not to.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Kernal level anticheat is invasive and the vast majority of anticheats are probably installing spyware with root access.

  • donio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It depends. If it’s under your control with your own keys then it can be beneficial. If it’s under someone else’s control (as it is for most people) then it’s a step towards the walled garden.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    14 days ago

    The biggest issue to me is that if you (the OS maker) wants a shim so you can use your own CA, you have to go through Microsoft. And they can just say no.

    I think Tuxedo is still waiting on their shim.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’ve avoided kernal anti-cheat basically forever on principle. On the plus side, there is talk about Microsoft kicking 3rd parties out of the kernal on windows, stemming from the cloudstrike debacle. If they kick out anti-virus, I can’t imagine that they let game publishers stay. We might actually see the death of kernal anti-cheat soon.

    On a side-note, it’s a really sad state that so much of the world runs on computers but the majority of people don’t know the first thing about using them. It has led us to so many bad places today that I really didn’t expect when I was a teen…