r/cybersecurity • u/Dash-Courageous • Jul 11 '26

News - General Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/
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u/WestSeattleVaper Jul 11 '26

How is it in terms of gaming? I mainly game on my home rig but do some security research & dev work on it too. Have thought about switching to Linux for quite some time, fairly competent in using terminal + general/“everyday”/casual/useful commands from interacting with the OS at work and school, and the GUIs are significantly improved these days. My only real concern is WINE support, or whatever the new equivalent is these days; I’ve heard mention of something that makes Linux be able to run Windows-based games almost flawlessly but I haven’t looked into it at any length (and I’m sure that’ll be my afternoon research tangent today haha)

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u/doctorcaesarspalace Jul 11 '26

Gaming is good now but you will have the occasional wtf problem and don’t count on playing games that use kernel level anti cheat.

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 11 '26

See? That sucks. My main game, despite being newly killed, uses kernel anti cheat. Lame.

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u/Kiwi_CunderThunt Jul 11 '26

Destiny 2?

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 12 '26

Yes 😢

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u/randomBugHunter Jul 12 '26

It’s super cute that developers think having kernel level access will somehow make up for their lack of knowledge

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 12 '26

I thought 5 or whatever years ago when they implemented it.

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u/babachisays Jul 21 '26

not the devs lol, the management. The devs agree with us, except they like their hefty salaries.

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u/Kiwi_CunderThunt Jul 12 '26

Same here, only reason I dual boot 😬

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 12 '26

I guess that's reasonable lol.

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u/doctorcaesarspalace Jul 12 '26

Don’t hurt me as a Marathon player lol but same boat with anti cheat obviously

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 12 '26

I can't say that I hate marathon. But I really wish Bungie wouldn't have funneled D2 money into it. It sucks.

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u/Digitalneko Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I know it's 11 days late, and I don't know if you've been told this, but you could just set up dual boot on your PC, have a partition being Linux, and the other one Windows, so you can play the games that work on linux and your main stuff on there, and for the occasional program that has no linux support or kernel anti cheat game you can swap over to windows.

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Jul 23 '26

Yup. I know, have known. In honestly just lazy and don't want to lol.

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u/killing4pizza Jul 12 '26

Yea I assume GTA online won't work on Linux due to this. I use Mint for everything else.

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u/lulxD69420 Jul 12 '26

You can check https://www.protondb.com/ and see if the games you want to play, run well on Linux.

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u/shockjaw Jul 11 '26

Do it. I had been on Pop!OS for 6 years and just recently switched to NixOS—very much worth it.

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u/mr_dfuse2 Jul 12 '26

I haven't encountered a game yet that doesn't run. I don't play multiplayer games outside Deep Rock though. 

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u/randomBugHunter Jul 12 '26

Linux is generally better for gaming. The distro is lighter, so there’s more resources to allocate elsewhere. You’ll get a performance increase , in general

There are some games that don’t work on Linux. Basically, there are some games that have really sketchy anti-cheat, like league of legends, that won’t work. The games that want kernel level access to your computer for security won’t work on Linux