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

(arstechnica.com)
400 points _JamesA_ | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.3s | 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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1. WorldMaker ◴[26 Jun 25 15:50 UTC] No.44388562[source]▶
It's funny because one of the OG draws to Steam back in the day was because Counter-Strike (et al) had the superior Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) in Steam copies than the myriad of raw CD installs of HL1 plus the mods to run Counter-Strike.

This missing piece is sort of a fun "whatever happened to VAC and why hasn't it kept up with the times?"

It seems like Linux would be a good excuse to reinvest in VAC and make it a bigger competitor to the current favorites like Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC).