• Nilz@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    This totally invalidates their argument “Linux isn’t big enough to care about”. I highly doubt there are more Windows Arm gamers than Linux gamers.

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      5 months ago

      They won’t or can’t get their anti-cheat/DRM in as a kernel module. Would you trust that bunch of fucks to not screw something up terribly by trying to pop in something like that?

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          5 months ago

          It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.

          It’s basically a rootkit.

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            5 months ago

            Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”

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              5 months ago

              Tldr kernel access is bad.

              You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?

              What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?

              How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?