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As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] chrischryse@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

So what’s so bad if it’s kernel level?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.

It’s basically a rootkit.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago

They can't even effectively prevent cheaters so I'm always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.

[-] chrischryse@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”

[-] humandotexe@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

Tldr kernel access is bad.

You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?

What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?

How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?

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