From both a technical perspective and if the maintainers of these anti-cheat will consider porting or re-writing kernel level anti-cheat to work on linux, is it possible? Do you think that the maintainers of kernel level anti-cheat will be adamant in not doing it, or that the kernel even supports it or will support it. I think that if it ever happens, there will be a influx of people moving to linux, or abandoning their duelboots, and that alot of people will hate that such a thing is available on linux.

  • danA
    473·
    21 days ago

    AFAIK Microsoft have plans to block kernel level anti-cheat on Windows. After the CrowdSec issues last year, they’re rethinking which types of programs should even be allowed to run in kernel space.

    Edit: I was wrong. They actually want to increase what can be done in user mode, to reduce reliance on kernel mode code.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      13·
      20 days ago

      They actually want to increase what can be done in user mode, to reduce reliance on kernel mode code.

      That’s basically what Apple did with macOS 11. They deprecated kernel extensions and replaced them with “system extensions”, and created new APIs so security tools, VPNs and such could function without kernel-level privileges.

    • coconut@programming.devEnglish
      152·
      21 days ago

      They don’t. One article lied, people never read anything but the title and here we are this getting mentioned every once in a while.

      • danA
        8·
        21 days ago

        Thanks. I looked into it a bit more and it looks like they actually want to increase what can be done in userland, to reduce the reliance on kernel mode. That’s still a good solution, if things the anti-cheat code needs to do can be moved into userland.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      i assume the problem with league of legends since last year is because they switched to kernel level anticheat then? would be nice if they get kicked in the face for the anti-linux decision they made so we can start playing again :P