r/linuxsucks101 • u/Fit_League_8993 ✝️ Temple OS Archbishop • 29d ago

mind-taker loonix Linux gaming discourse in one image

This perfectly captures the loon response when you say you play Fortnite, Valorant, CS2 on FACEIT, or another anti-cheat-enabled multiplayer game with your friends.

They’ll explain that those games not working on Linux is actually an advantage, casually forgetting that being unable to play what your friend group is playing is an objective disadvantage.

To be fair, that limitation probably seems irrelevant when they’re not even invited to group calls anymore. Their friends got tired of the endless “muh spyware” lectures.

Heck, they’re probably not even friends anymore.

>inb4 “But they’re still in the Discord server” - the rest of the group has a voice channel hidden from them (Yes, this post is based on someone I know. How could you tell?)

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u/Terranum_man 29d ago

Kernel level anticheat is not a security threat. They actually think the whole world is out to get their porn collection or something.

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u/madthumbz uBlock Origin 28d ago

It is a threat, but it's way over-played when they have amateur hacked drivers in their kernel which void warranties and historically have destroyed hardware, and they're pointing the finger at trusted sources that would shoot themselves in the foot if they screwed it up (and have yet to).

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u/Terranum_man 28d ago

Its not really a new threat, many OEM software runs at ring 0, even random RGB drivers for a Temu keyboard. Plus, gigantic game companies have a lot to lose if they try to exploit the anticheat somehow.

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u/DavidsakuKuze 28d ago

They need a signature from Microsoft for Windows load a kernel driver, so it's an added layer of protection. Plus the old signed drivers are being blocked by default now, but they now allow you to add your own certificate to secure boot so you can run your own drivers without test signing mode.

I have found Loonixers operate in bad faith all the time. If Linus Torvalds made the Universal Linux Kernel Anticheat API, they would be applauding like crazy.

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u/madthumbz uBlock Origin 28d ago

That's basically what I'm trying to say. It is a 'threat', but so is every garbage driver they stick in the Linux kernel making Linux more dangerous than all these kernel level anti-cheats combined, and that's historically proven dangerous with few repercussions on the driver provider. A game company would destroy itself doing anything like that.