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Surprised they (Denuvo, etc - not Valve) don't just hard require SELinux.
There is nothing worse than playing multiplayer and having somebody who is cheating. Viable and promising games have been ruined by people cheating.
But I don't see an easy way around the issue but these are the usual solutions:
Personally I'd prefer that multiplayer games obtain consent to install anti cheat and should certify through auditing that the anticheat software is inactive and nonintrusive when the game is not running. Perhaps operating systems could even provide hooks and hard guarantees that this is the case.
I will buy one of these if valve fixes gaming on Linux. I don't even want one
I did some Linux gaming during COVID and recently swapped my HTPC to Linux (Bazzite/Deck) for a console style setup in the living room. Massively improved now over my previous experience.
The game I was playing heavily this last weekend (Wildmender) absolutely runs better in Proton on Linux than it did on Windows. Less crashes, less stutters, faster load time. I assume it is due to preRendered shaders? Honestly not really sure but it is nice.
Going to do some Enshrouded on it next which is a game absolutely not at all optimized for Linux, so far it seems to be working fine but I've not gotten to that late game CPU intensity of loading areas heavily modified.
I really hope it won't be a case of requiring a Steam Machine with SteamOS on there for this to work.
I don't imagine the overlap of people interested in the steam machine and people playing games with invasive anti-cheat is very big.
I personally know a few people who are interested in buying the Steam Machine but are having doubts because some their regular games use anticheat that doesn't work on Linux.
I imagine the amount of people is significantly higher than you might think because the vast majority of gamers don't care about invasive anticheat. To them Steam machine is the equivalent of a console. They probably don't even care it runs on Linux because all they care about is being able to play games.
entire box dedicated to avoiding fuckery, gamers beg to install fuckery
stupid mofos
Yeah, a lot of gamers know nothing about any of this conversation. I mean, my coworkers who game and mentioned the Stream Machine this weekend. Of course one was talking Fortnite. So that's where we're at. I didn't even get into why this "console" won't have one of the more popular games that's literally free on every other machine including their phone. (I can already hear people saying "is a computer! It should run everything!" And then getting together when you explain how, and saying "it should be simple! It's a console!") It's months away at best anyway. Who knows.