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Sad State Of Anti Cheat On Linux

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Things were progressing quite positively in the world on Linux and anti cheat for quite a while but at least for EA games that appears to be reversing, at least in part. ==========Support The Chann...

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You could always... you know... buy either a "work-only" PC (something like a Orange pi 5 max) or a "Windows PC" to play these games?

t. Got three "computers" with different functions and I'm about to have a 4th one.
Simple solution. Don't buy those games.
- Boycott PUBG and Rainbow Six Siege
Anti cheat with kernel privileges? no, thanks.
- i have no problem with privileged code or trusted computer code as long as it's open source, open protocols and managed by an open foundation of some sort
- Serious question, how does this work on Linux when using wine? Elden ring uses this one and it runs in Linux. It doesn't have kernel access does it?
  
  EAC on Linux uses special runtime usually provided by Steam and it runs in userspace. However, developers have to whitelist said runtime and that's where the issue is
You can't solve cheating on the client.
- Exactly. But it's the cheapest solution for the studio/publisher and most gamers blindly accept it, with some even actively defending the practice.
  
  It is also insecure with possiblity to crash your computer, the only advantage is that it is cheap.
- I don't think there's a way to solve it on the server either.
  
  Solving it on the client is literally impossible, solving it on the server is difficult and could be impossible, big difference.
  
  It's like someone trying to send a car to the moon by pulling the steering wheel. It's impossible, the fact that building a rocket is hard or that you don't know how to do it or that it could fail has no bearing on the fact that trying to pull the steering wheel on a car is definitely the wrong way to go about it.
  
  In the same manner solving cheating on the client is the same kind of impossible, anyone defending it sounds like a flat-earther to anyone with the basic knowledge of client/server architecture.
  
  There absolutely is, it just takes effort. Many MMOs do this, and as a result almost all of them are playable on linux.
Stop giving EA money. It's not that hard. I haven't given them money for 10 years.
- This is the way... The last battlefield... I am still salty
  
  What's wrong about Battlefield 3?
In a never-ending arms race what can they hope to achieve by imprisoning a minority just in case they're more likely to be a spy?

Would like to see attempts to approach cheating in a non-hopeless way.

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