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CachyOS is adding a dedicated EACv2-compatible kernel plus a Secure Boot setup guide so users can optionally meet Epic’s new EACv2 requirements without changing their normal optimized kernel. (github.com)
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https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos/pull/1084

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Your reply doesn't make me sure if it is running on a similar privilege level to root.

I don't use Linux to give that level of trust to anticheat, and I don't see the benefit at that point of dual booting Windows instead.

So are you saying it doesn't get root type privileges? And can be as trusted to not be as invasive as anticheat is on windows being able to look through your entire system?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    From what I have found, the main difference between an eBPF program (which is what EACv2 contains) and an actual kernel module, seems to be that other parts of the kernel will be protected from EACv2. However, an eBPF program can spy on all your user space programs, read memory belonging to other processes, etc. They're also saying that the anti-cheat is going to include a systemd service, which I assume is going to run as root.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    So are you saying it doesn’t get root type privileges? And can be as trusted to not be as invasive as anticheat is on windows being able to look through your entire system?

    From my understanding, that's right. My understanding is very shallow though, so you should look into it yourself if you really care enough. I think the links I posted are enough of a starting point.

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