Most games I know about do both, but my understanding is it's hard to stop some of the client-side stuff server-side.

Look, we've been here before. I'm not super invested in multiplayer stuff, so I don't care that much, but I am old enough to remember when gamedevs would not even try crossplay and just let the PC be the wild west when it comes to cheating.

I didn't necessarily hate it. I lived in a world of dedicated servers where moderation and security came down to some kid in his underpants being pretty sure he didn't like you and kicking you out. I'm guessing there's a bit too much money and too much of an expectation of free-form matchmaking for the mass market to go back to that.

But hey, I'm not a security software engineer and I'm not excessively involved in competitive shooters, which seems to be where most of the problem happens. My interest in this is having enough PC security for crossplay to make matchmaking in fighting games less of a hassle than it used to be in the Street Fighter 4 days. You sweaty FPS nerds can do whatever, as far as I'm concerned.

Hu? You don’t need to type root password to load a kernel module automatically , do you?

I mean, do you have to type the root pw if you plug in a wifi dongle that requires an out-of-tree module?

As far as I understand, you have to type root pw only for installation and update of the module and, depending on distribution, even that is not really visible since you type root pw to install tons of stuff all the time.

Anticheats on Linux don’t have kernel access

Yeah, I know. I'd like it to stay that way. Furthermore, this is also why games with kernel-level anticheat still don't work on linux, despite developments in wine/proton.

Don't give corpos any ideas

The post is about anticheat that doesn't work on linux. Non-kernel-level anticheat works fine now thanks to wine/proton. That just leaves kernel-level anticheat. If a game has kernel-level anticheat, the studio is not going to remove it for the sake of a linux version. Therefore, to be compatible with linux, they would be introducing kernel-level anticheat into a linux version. To this, I say "fuck no".

I've been playing since alpha. I bought it the first day it was on sale. I bought it on steam a second time. When the expansions came out they gave me them on the first purchase. I will do a career run every now and then but most of my games are sandbox games with huge multi launch space stations. I've been playing this go round for a about three months and when I get bored I'll park it on a drive for several months then I'm back at it. I still get a kick out of manual(No Mech Jeb) mun landing and returns.

KSP 2 is a little better than its first release. I still main play KSP 1 in sandbox mode. If you have a problem with parts counts get a part fusion mod and combine parts to increase your FPS.

Denuvo et al are exactly what I'm talking about.

We actually know this number. As per Steam's hardware survey this group is around 2%, including Steam Deck players.

Best guess, Steam Deck sales are 5-10% of the Switch, which is in the same ballpark, so both numbers are probably roughly right.

Wheter you want to count that as "significant" is up to you, I guess. I bet the impact is very different depending on the game, even for supported games.

Not even slippery slope, that guy just manifested an argument out of his ass