Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    Don't be so spineless.

    Plenty of games work without anti cheat on Linux and I only play them.

    You just buckled under the tiniest amount of pressure, but you would have to pry Linux out of my cold dead hands.

    • Ineocla@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I could stop playing these games right now. As i said i'm don't use my computer for gaming that much. I could be perfectly satisfied with only minecraft. But i play them with the homies and i can't let them down

    • Clipper152@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Not sure why there are so many downvotes. Are there really that many people in here of all places who think gaming is just triple-A games from companies that don't respect their players and nothing else?

      Edit: wording

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        It's actually pretty hard to fuck up your game that much that it doesn't work on Linux.

        Many anti cheat even work under proton.

        So yeah, just don't fucking buy shit games.

      • mee@programming.dev
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        10 months ago

        I don't like it because that's the kind of elitist attitude that turns away new people from checking out Linux gaming. Imagine that as a response to "Hey I play these games and am interested in Linux". You're going to tell them: "switch to Linux and give up those games and if you don't you're not committed enough"?

        It's gatekeeping "console-wars" fanboy mentality. Like a Linux Playstation fan attacking someone for playing an Windows Xbox Exclusive. As if that's supposed to be their whole identity, and not just a way to play video games.

        There's nothing wrong with having multiple consoles; there's nothing wrong with dual-booting.

        • Clipper152@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          In my experience, most Windows-exclusive games work just fine under Wine. It's not that big a deal.

          This thread isn't even about Windows games per se, but about a few games whose anti-cheats are screwing over Linux users.

  • philluminati@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Same here. I’ve only a Linux machine for over a decade but I had to go out and buy Windows just so I could play on FaceIT. I’m praying that cs2 supports Linux and the MM experience is good enough to make FaceIT obsolete.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    I just refuse to buy any games with client side anti cheat. It's just too much of a security and privacy risk to have those rootkits on my computers.

    • calzie@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      this might (barely) work for Source games like CS:GO, TF2, etc but on games like Overwatch, Valorant, Fortnite, etc there are a lot less exploits that would keep HvH actually interestering like fake angles, doubletap, etc like there are in the Source Engine (mind you this is because the engine is literally from 2003 and based on Goldsrc which is based on the damn Quake engine.)

      also this did exist for a while in cs:go TECHNICALLY, wingman in CSGO had overwatch disabled (when they were collecting data for vac.net) for almost a year and was literally just used to hvh but it never stopped people from cheating in competitive.

    • ______@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Cheaters are sociopaths. Most of them pretend to be good and post clips or try to get a following until they inevitably get banned.

      Every script kiddie says this same thing. There are already HvH servers. Barely anyone plays them. If a company had official HvH it would encourage cheating. Fuck cheaters..

      • calzie@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        definitely not all cheaters are sociopaths, been in the cheating community since 2014-ish (starting to slowly back off and leave recently just due to the the obvious toxicity in it) and have made plenty of genuinely great friends there but ofc it is mostly horrible people, especially the people who closet and hide it from friends. do agree that this plan would never work though, but HvH was never really dead, it was at its peak in 2020 where there were probably 200+ people playing although it's really only active in EU now.