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		bitwize on Oct 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now... I set up a separate user account for Steam precisely because I don't want anti-cheats sniffing my main account's memory through /proc. Anti-cheat can go fuck itself, doubly hard if it tries to install a kernel module just to play a damn game.

therein on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

Unfortunately it probably will want to have itself loaded as a kernel module, if they ever were to decide to even begin supporting it.

Anti-cheat has been one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of gaming on Linux for a long time.

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