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Why would you want a backdoor on the OS of your gaming machine?
Some anticheat systems require a backdoor. If those are games you want to play, you have to submit to it. Personally I see it as a reason to avoid those games, but if you really want to play them, you may not have a choice. Apart from pressuring the publisher to support saner anticheat and Linux.
I don't and it sounds like I might not have to soon. Mslop had us by the balls for long enough.
Oh what did I miss there?
fartknife/ easyanticheat will have support for signed linux kernels with tpm, secure boot and iommu