I feel like they're doing this because they are going so hard with steam deck. Regardless, good on Valve for doing this.
Can someone explain like I’m stupid on kernel level anti cheat and why I should watch out for it? Not a dig at all, a genuine question!
Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.
And you can't even check what it's really doing on your computer because it's a crime under US law.
Finally, it can get hacked and other people than the creator can do all these to your computer as well,as it already happened once.
Also, the most games that don't work in linux is for this reason (and steamdeck works in linux)
Imagine a game having higher privileges than what you get with "Run as administrator"
Easy, a bug in battle eye forced me to reinstall windows, this kernel access has to go.
Meanwhile at Epic...
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
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