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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

(arstechnica.com)
400 points _JamesA_ | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jekwoooooe ◴[25 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44382924[source]▶
The last missing piece for full Linux gaming is anticheat. Last I looked into it, the major vendors don’t want to support it due to lack of kernel security and the ones that do, game devs refuse to allow it (destiny for example)

One we can play AAA games I am literally ditching windows forever. Steamos is the best thing that has happened to gaming

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Cloudef ◴[26 Jun 25 00:47 UTC] No.44383197[source]▶
Multiplayer games without dedicated servers is dead end anyways. I dont need a "anti-cheat" daemon hooking into kernel scanning files and other memory while playing a game. Communities in dedicated servers are much more efficient at moderating the player base than centralized match making ever will be.
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1. kgwxd ◴[26 Jun 25 00:57 UTC] No.44383249[source]▶
Yeah, but it's very time consuming/impossible to find similarly skilled players for a fun lobby. The only competitive game I care to play on Linux is Rocket League, which is nearly impossible to cheat at, so it doesn't currently have anti-cheat, but I wouldn't be surprised if Epic decides to put their beloved EAC in it at some point anyway, maybe even just because they hate Linux so much.
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2. Moomoomoo309 ◴[26 Jun 25 12:10 UTC] No.44386615[source]▶
EAC has a Proton-compatible version, actually. Even if they enable it, if they use that version, it'll work fine via wine/Proton.