There's a lot of blog posts and news articles being written right now centred around Microsoft's plans for updates to Windows 11, and potential kernel changes, with some thinking this means big things for Linux gaming.

There’s a lot of blog posts and news articles being written right now centred around Microsoft’s plans for updates to Windows 11, and potential kernel changes, with some thinking this means big things for Linux gaming.

Sorry to say, but I’m here to bring a more realistic take and to help keep all your feet on the ground.

quite relevant to yesterday’s discussion.

  • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It just means that MS will start enforcing the use of Pluton as a hard requirement for Windows 12 after Windows 11 is end-of-life. You saw it happen with TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot with 11, history repeats itself.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I have 0 interest in this guy’s takes.

    He pushed an awful battle royale game that just took people’s money (including mine) and never actually launched.

    He also once got into a Twitter (edit: it was actually mastodon) argument with me when he posted about an open source developer being “selfish” or something like that for telling him “if you don’t like the readme, open a pull request with the changes you want made to it.” Long story short, I told him it wasn’t cool to make a post bullying an open source developer to donate more of their free time to something they didn’t want to do, and that they have every right to tell him “go do it yourself.” He blocked me.

    Yeah, he runs a Linux gaming website, yeah he talks about games that run on Linux which is cool, but … make no mistake he doesn’t have some deeper journalistic insight. If Microsoft does forbid kernel level anticheat, that will indeed be a game changer.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat are such a small minority of games that I struggle to think how this could mean big anything (good or bad) to Linux gaming in general.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.ukEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Unfortunately, a lot of those are super popular and there are still gamers that want to switch to Linux but can’t because of those games.

      • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Unfortunately, a lot of those are super popular and there are still gamers that don’t want to switch to Linux but can’t because of those games.

        FTFY because of course most of these people could switch and just stop playing these couple of games, that’s hardly life changing.