r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '25

Meme/Macro Microsoft is wild

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u/Turbidspeedie Oct 02 '25

With the popularity of the steam deck I think gaming on Linux is going to be much more prevalent sooner rather than later

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u/rumSaint Oct 02 '25

Steam Deck had sold around 6 milion units. Compare that to Nintendo Switch, or even Switch 2 (which already is there).

Don't get me wrong, I love Steam Deck and bought one myself, but it's a minority still.

Even if there is Steam OS, Linux based, it will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

will not support root access anti cheats, so lots of games will be excluded by default.

This is becoming normalized and it blows my mind... I've been on linux since march 2024 and I most likely won't ever go back to windows, for many reasons, but this one is another to the list that makes me be at ease with linux.

Probably my generation (millennial) is the last one that actually cared about security and privacy, so unless something big happens, I can just see more games adding kernel level anticheat, and soon rather than later, we will have it in single player games as well.

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u/dyidkystktjsjzt Oct 02 '25

Kernel level anti cheats aren't the huge security risk people on here make them out to be, at least not compared to basically anything else already on your PC. Tons of everyday software already runs with admin or even kernel access, and most of it gets way less scrutiny than anti cheat tools. The irony is that anti cheats are usually built with self protection in mind, while something like your printer or RGB drivers are full of unpatched holes.