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Any company trying to install such intrusive software into a system should be banned and shunned.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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People might hate Epic but I think this is progress.
Hold your horses. I wanna bet that companies that jump to linux gravy train as of late are doing so because Valve is about to drop a nuclear bomb of a game changer on the market. These big players want a piece of the cake too and are desperately doing something to stay relevant.
It is good that things are moving linux' way, but I highly doubt that it was because Epic thinks gamers want it.
You are not wrong. This is a good take and something to keep in mind.
Too little, too late. It's still one of the worst companies in the entire industry, and deserves even more hate then it receives.
Any company can lie and bullshit it ain't progress till there's proof this isn't just a dead position that will just get axed in a year with nothing to show for it.
I don't see how an atttempt to enshitify Linux is progress... We should not be getting excited about being able to willingly install rootkits in Linux.
How does this enshittify Linux as a whole? Yes they make their rootkit available for Linux. Yet you still have a choice to install it or not.
Fuck Epic Games.
Fingers crossed they aren't trying to develop a linux kernel module anticheat because I will never load that crap on anyone's machine.
Even right now, the last standing proprietary blob in my way is Nvidia, which they finally open sourced their kernel driver so if the userspace blob bothers you, you can switch to the upcoming Nova driver from RedHat.
The kernel needs to stay clean. They can do whatever they'd like in userspace.
I don't play games with this crap. I also don't have friends. But even if I did I would not pay for spyware.
I am not excited to have Linux-kernel anti cheat spyware on my machine, but I guess it's good to free gamers from Microslop monopoly.
As long as it's not kernel level, good with me
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this is nice not because its kernel level anti-cheet but having access to games that utilize it on linux is a huge step in it being adopted as the default computer gaming platform
inb4 it's a kernel module that only works with secureboot and signed kernel images, and kills the game if you have xpadneo loaded.
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You’re not getting root access, plain and simple.
The server should be the authority. Never trust the clients. For fucks sake it isn't this hard for game developers to build their shit right.
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Tim Swiney spent decades being anti-linux until he realized how much of a bitch it is to work with microsoft.
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