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Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I mean, to me, this is amazingly obviously the goal.

Games run better ~5% fps better now on Linux (when using a distro configured for gaming) than they do on Windows.

As you say, last technical obstacle is kernel AC rootkits.

Solve that, anyone still gaming on Windows is a MSFT fanboy, afraid of change, whatever.

But they have very little actual solid reason to remain on Windows.

Start getting people outta Windows for home PCs, it becomes basically just a shitty corpo OS.

Rather, not OS... but ecosystem.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd actually imagine for non-Microsoft properties, they would have all the more reason to run away from Windows to linux as soon as the anticheat issue is resolved.

    I'd imagine they would come to the same conclusion that Gaben had with Win8: Relying on Microsoft "never restricting" the installation of software outside of the windows/Xbox store in the future is a huge gamble. Better to avoid the risk entirely.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Right I used to think Android would be smart enough to maintain the illusion of an open platform alternative to Apple that doesn't restrict users as heavily, but even Android is moving towards a locked down platform that doesn't let users sideload apps or install alternative OS, if this succeeds then I'm quite sure Microsoft will follow suit the greedy fucks that they are. We need more alternative phone companies and easier ways to make cross platform apps that can run on non Apple and Android phones easily

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