@gamingonlinux doesn't change the fact that #ClientSideAnticheat is #malware that needs to be outlawed!

@Eichi all "#ClientSideAnticheat" is #malware!

@__hetz @vantablack it really depends greatly on the specific Game...

Like @fuchsiii has a lot of issues with weird games that are i.e. #32bit but use a #16bit #Installer, require legacy versions of #DirectX / #Direct3D if not #DirectDraw or have other issues.

• For the most part, #GameScope is broken so many 1990s games without much fans are constantly getting broken much to her frustration.

Obviously this doesn't apply to newer mainstream titles like #Crysis where one just chooses an older version of #Proton / #DXVK and can just game fine.

• But for a lot of older games, shit's getting worse, and the rampant rise of #malware like #AlwaysOnlineDRM and "#ClientSideAnticheat" that is spitefully developed to not run on #Linux when it absolutely could be [i.e. #EpicGames *chose to not make #Fortnite work despite their entire toolchain, middleware, engine and "#AntiCheat" being capable of supporting it] really sours things!

Obviously #Valve ain't saints but even if I was a #Steam-absent #Developer or #Publisher I'd at least not go out of my way to cockblock people from gaming on it, when it's hardware is roughly on-par with the #Switch2 and unlike #Nintendo's shitbox it isn't a closed-off platform.

• It's just that sadly none of the big publishers seem to care - yet.

And with the expected retail price of the #SteamMachine closer to €1k than €500, it'll be kinda hard for most consumers to justify buying in and thus developers to do more than the bare essentials.

So yeah, #LinuxGaming has issues - I'm not gonna deny that - but certainly these are certainly not due to Valve, but rather:

• Publishers integrating malware.
• Developers of FLOSS breaking shit constantly and refusing to address things or even acknowledge issues.
• General #Enshittification and erosion of #ConsumerRights during #Greedflation in #LateStageCapitalism.

@vantablack your device, your freedom.

All I can tell you is that you'd regret that, as Windows has piss-poor performance, shit battery life and won't fix the issues due to #Malware like garbage #DRM and "#ClientSideAnticheat"…

• But feel free to make that discovery yourself.

@kassander @frumble ja, weil sich das so auch gehört für'n Server!

Wer jetzt unbedingt WinShit-Zeugs zocken will trotz #Malware (#DRM & "#ClientSideAnticheat") muss halt im Zweifelsfalle eh was performantes durchreichen.

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

• #NoHumanIsillegal: #FerriesNotFrontex!
• #PNCHNZS! Being a racist, fascist or otherwise shit person is a choice. People can choose to deradicalize, but not 'choose' not to be targeted by Neonazis!
• #NSAfDverbotSofort - no excuses!
• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
• #HousingFirst, cuz #HumanRights are not negotiable, but precondition to even consider negotiations!
• #UBI instead of #MeansTesting; Cuz survival is not optional!
• #Education is a #HumanRight and should be provided to anyone without any paywalling or charges. This includes access to #Textbooks, which should be provided #DRM-free. All education material should be publicly available and it's creation and updates be paid by the public just like schools.
• #ClothesHaveNoGender
• #PublicTransport should be #free, #accessible and publicly funded and run.
• All #infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be publicly run and financed solely by either transit fees or public spending.
• #accessibility should be mandatory without exceptions. Paywalling it should be criminalized as a hatecrime.
• Every #home should have access to #DrinkingWater, Sewage Handling, #electricity and #fiber #internet. IDGAF if it's at some remote island or desert oasis!
• #HealthCare is a #HumanRight, not a commodity!
• #Politicans should have to obey the same #laws re: secondary income as #PublicServants and be barred from recieving any other #compensation, #bonuses or have any other income beyond the compensation for their post.
• #Politicans should only be paid #MinimumWage!Wage
• Everyone should have to contribute to #SocialSecurity programs and in return, everyone gets eligible. That means no exceptions for #billionaires and other rich people. If I have to afford ~ 20% of my paycheck for #healthcare then so can all the #Banksters!
• #MinimumWage must be able to afford not mere survival, but actually be sufficient to afford #downpayment on a #home and not just #rent. It should also be automatically be adjusted with #inflation and not be a political bargaining chip!
• Denying people access to legal #work is a crime against humanity. People should have a right to fair and non-discriminatory access to employment regardless of legal status.
• #StockTrading should be regulated as #Gambling.
• Advertising Gambling or using Gambling / #PayToLoose / "#PayToWin" / #P2W mechanics to minors should be as illegal as advertising cigarettes and liquor to them.
• Banning or age restricting #LGBTQIA* content as "#AdultContent" should be illegal. #QueerErasure is indefensible. If you're to prudish to accept that #LoveIsLove then that's a "You" Problem!
• #Cyberfascism needs to be outlawed and Corporations like #Palantir need to be disbanded, their assets stripped and their employees jailed for crimes against humanity. They are morally indefensible!
• #BanBillionaires, strip them off their assets and wealth and redistribute it. #Billionaires should be sentenced to #CommunityService for life as means to (at least partially) undo harm caused.
• #SuperUselessVehicles should be disincentivized and instead any #incentives and #subsidies should be given only to #PersonalLightVehicles of classes #L2e, #L5e, #L6e & #L7e.
• #SexworkIsWork!
• #CSAM is indefensible and authorities that shutdown Pedo Forums should be mandated to #delete [and report] all such content at the hosters and get them to delete it. This includes Kiwi Farms which got fired by Gandi [french registrar] for hosting CSAM!
• It should be illegal to enforce foreign laws overseas. Yes this includes "#Embargos" from the #USA!
• #Trump is a fascist POS and a bootlicker of #Putin!
• #FuckICE
• #MethanolFuelcell > #LithiumCobaltBattery
• #Tabs > #Spaces
• #TSV > #CSV > #MicrosoftExcel
• #Markdown > #RTF
• #OpenDocument > #OOXML
• #PDF > #MicrosoftWord
• #git > #subversion
• #IRC & #Mumble, #MailingList > #discord
• #XMPP+#OMEMO > any proprietary messenger
• #PGP/MIME acceptance should be mandatory per law for all #eMails in #business and towards public offices
• Every System that has a #clock inside has to self-adjust it correctly without user intervention. I don't care if it uses a time signal like DCF77, GNSS or NTP. Computers must syncronize their hardware clock to [Unixtime](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) regardless of the used OS
• #Police should only be allowed to carry and use what law-abiding citizens are to. If you don't trust your neighbour with a #gun, why would you trust a stranger who doesn't even have to evidence proper storage, training, proficiency and isn't subject to due diligence?
• #QualifiedImmunity is #PoliceState horeshite and must never be allowed and retroactively canned. If you don't want #accountability or #consequences for those in power, you are a bootlicker.
• Long-lasting peace in the #MiddleEast will most likely only happen if a unified #laicist nation compromising of #Israel and #Palestine gets built. It's just currently not intended to happen by both sides!
• #Ukraine is the #LitmusTest for #EU & #NATO. If Ukraine doesn't win beyond the #StatusQuoAnteBellum (1994-2011) and doesn't get EU & NATO membership it'll either be destroyed by #Russia in Putin's neo-czarist ambitions and thus will legitimize & normalize the Russian #CrimeOfAggression, which will then focus on #Baltics and espechally #Finland. Already the western #cowardice of not following through on the #BudapestMemorandum puts the #NPT and the trustworthyness of the USA, #UK and The West in general into question.
• A #TotalEmbargo against Russia is long overdue - including a #SeaBlockade, not just against the #ShadowFleet which poses a statistically inevitable risk for the #envoirment!
• #NuclearPower is not #renewable and using precious radioactive elements to boil water to spin a turbine is an insult to #physics! #Renewables should be mandatory and we can talk about #Fusion once #ITER actually evidently works and is able to sustain net positive energy output into the grid.
• "#AI" is #WastefulComputing and should be considered an #EnvoirmentalCrime and #CrimeAgainstHumanity, with all the prosecution it entails!
  
• The only people that have a 'right' to be 'proud' of their #citizenship are those that actually had to put in effort to get #naturalized. People who won the #BirthLottery are disqualified.
• Also anyone who is "proud" of their citizenship by birth evidently has achieved nothing on their own worth to be proud of! Even if it's just graduating school, driving license, forklift certification or some kind of art.
• We need #RightToRepair, not only but espechally for #electronics! This includes tight mandates to provide #parts, #tools, #documentation and #support under #FRAND [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory] terms.
• #Patents on #Software, espechally #GameMechanics, should be illegal. No #patent should be issued without evidence of it being a genuine, new #invention with a demonstrable prototype. If #Kickstarter wouldn't accept it, then neither should any #PatentOffice!
• #Patents of lifeforms and DNA have to be outlawed.
• #Copyright to something should cease the moment the copyright holder refuses to offer the copyrighted work under FRAND terms. If buying isn't ownership than #piracy isn't #theft. Also #OneTimePurchase options [for a specific version] should be mandatory by law and #subscriptions only be allowed for products and services that actually incur costs to upkeep (i.e. bandwith and storage for hosting/streaming). Designing something as "#LiveService" when it has no reason (i.e. refusing to sell physical copies) to should be deemed a fraudulent circumvention of it.
• "#ClientsideAnticheat" is #malware and needs to be prosecuted as such. Any "#AntiCheat" should be Server-Sided only.
• #PriceGouging must be prosecuted harder, espechally when it comes to #utilities.
• Just like #FuelPrices at a #GasStation, so should #ChargingStations be mandated to publish their pricing publicly in realtime and not discriminate customers!
• Everyone should have a #RightToBanking without discrimination. Any closure of accounts must be legitimized by actual criminal activity (i.e. money laundering, fraud, terrorism financing, ...) and go through due process with appeals.
• Everyone should have a right to free, unseizeable #ID documents without mandating #biometrics or other privacy invasions! These should be eligible as Travel #Passport and people should have global #FreedomOfMovement only restricted by an actual, individual judge ruling that went through proper oversight and appeals. Duplicate Issues to avoid Visa Conflicts (with duplicate Serial Numbers!) should be offered and granted upon request.
• #Gender does not belong into ID documents! Just like weight, hair colour, religion, occupation and address don't!

@Lydie I hope not ib terms of tight ibtegration, but I see the problem:

• Too tight bs…

My guess at that point will be that any performance losses due to lack of optimizations will be outweight by processing speed increases.

• Cuz that's what happens today anyway…

We'd rather see issues with #Enshittification due to #Malware like "#ClientSideAnticheat" or #AlwaysOnlineDRM, becauce *"#Client-side #Anticheat" and #CensorBoot-intertwined #DRM is the only thing that prevents the deserved 100% win of #Linux for #Gaming!

@the_cjuty people.who accept such #malware aka. "#ClientSideAnticheat" / "#KernelLevelAnticheat" are a lost cause and.I'm not gonna waste my energy on them.

• You can't reason with idiots!

@lappenjammer also die bisherigen #Deponia-Titel funzen.

• Wäre bisschen dumm wenn #Dadealic nicht ihr zeug aufm #SteamDeck (#SteamOS / #Linux) testet, zumal es dank #Proton / #DXVK / #Wine nur noch bei Spielen mit #Malware wie "#ClientSideAnticheat" Probleme gibt!

@emilyyoung @ShadSterling nodds in agreement

• Tho besides #Steam, #Lutris & #HeroicLauncher make most modern games without #malware in the form of "#ClientSideAnticheat" #Rootkits just work.

From experience the most problematic are early #Windows games from 1995-2005 with like very old DirectX versions or cursed setups where the game is #32bit but the #Installer is #16bit. (i.e. #PizzaSyndicate).

• Granted those games won't even install on #64bit - Windows machines anyway so they ain't smooth at all.

And whilst dedicated folks like @fuchsiii work on fixing these issues, we can all agree that people who play #Games that old may already have some dedicaded, legacy hardware at their disposal and wouldn't mind stuff like virtualization with passthrough to old PCI(e)-GPUs for their singleplayer games.

• Obviously I'd prefer more #native #Linux #games but unless they want to statically compile the game with all dependencies into one AppImage that's more daunting as #ProtonGE / #DXVK support.

Still, #LinuxGaming has come a long way since the days when I had to manually shove DirectX, .net Runtime, ms-corefonts and Gecko (as Internet Explorer replacement) into Wine and manually force Windows-#Steam to launch...

• And given #Valve's commitment with the "#GabeCube" and #SteamFrame things have moved in the right direction…

@emilyyoung precisely that because #Linux will win longterm just by not #Enshittifying and just treating users better…

• This isn't even like a hypothetical…

Also #LinuxGaming these days is easier, faster, less stressful and just overall better not just because #Valve actually cares, but because #developers and #maintainers of distros and the Linux community do.

• The only painpoints are some quirky games released ca. 1995-2005 that didn't see widespread popularity and need tweaks in #Wine & #DXVK to run at all (as @fuchsiii is dabbling with those) and #malware-laced crap under false pretenses like "#ClientSideAnticheat" that is specifically designed to not work on #Linux with #rootkits not dissimilar from #StarFORCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wyIalhdPU video via #MVG

@campuscodi guess what: The only issues I've seen are due to #Malware like #DRM and/or "#ClientSideAnticheat"…

"Strenggenommen ist das geschummelt!"

• Aber das ist #User|n - besonders #TechIlliterates - zu 99% shice egal...

Doof nur dass es wegen #Virtualisierung weder "#ClientSideAnticheat" - #Malware noch #BluRay & #HDDVD abspielen kann!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AicX_0Ytxgg

#WinBoat #Dockur #Windows #Linux #Docker

Worse even, there are developments re: #cheating which involve using "#AI" to merely #aimbot / a player into making hits, including stochastic delays and inaccuracy to hide it.

• I know from a reliable source that this - alongside existing #Cheating problems - is why #Valve only considers #ServerSideAnticheat as reliable as #ClientSideAnticheat is impossible to enforce outside of #GameConsoles like the #XboxOne ¹!

This doesn't even account for the fact that #Linux isn't a good platform to do these #malware-style #Kernelhack|s but also that trying to do #ClientSide #Anticheat isn't worth the hassle.

• Which is why Valve works hard on "AI"-based #cheat detection in a way #fraud with #CreditCard|s is being combatted through #plausibility checks and per-transaction risk assessment.

The whole #CSGO / #CS2 "#Overwatch" basically amounts to #training (alongside with the existing footage of "known good" and "known bad" examples) of those "AI" efforts!

• Simply because with every gameplay they are able to collect metrics and will automatically flag games if someone were to suddenly have an extremely good K/D.

This is also why #Ranking is enforced in #Competitive #Multiplayer of #CounterStrike2 and why Valve yeeted "#smurf"-accounts because #smurfing taints their dataset.

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

THIS is why "#ClientSideAnticheat" is ineffective #malware at best, because it's impossible to stop malicious #PCIe #CheatingDevices that shove data to any arbitrary address, bypassing #IOMMU and just #DMA'ing into #RAM...

Shit like #PCIleech ¹ allows for realtime ² manipulations of RAM ³ with no effective means by the OS or any Software to prevent, reliably detect or stop it.

• Thus DMA-based cheating is rampant ⁴ and not stoppable on the device itself ⁵, with dedicaded cheating hardware ⁶ kits ⁷ being rampant.

And now you know why on any #tournament with any serious price money they'll not only split the screen signal of every player for referees to watch but also go out of their way to setup fresh gaming rigs and even buy the input devices for said players where they'll have to submit anything like "buy scripts" and "key bindings" beforehand and those get manually setup to prevent any shenanigans.

¹ https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech
² https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ufrisk/presentations/master/CS3STHLM-2019-Ulf-Frisk-Memory-Forensics-and-DMA-Attacks-with-MemProcFS-and-PCILeech.pdf
³ https://dma.lystic.dev/anticheat-evasion/pci-configuration-space
⁴ https://dma.lystic.dev/anticheat-evasion/pci-configuration-space
⁵ https://hackaday.com/2023/03/30/pcie-for-hackers-extracting-the-most/
⁶ https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005006302160633.html
⁷ https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005007142280132.html

@pgcd "#ClientSideAnticheat" is as much of a #malware as "Driver-based #DRM" like #SecuROM & #StarForce!

@WiteWulf @Erased_Citizen nodds in agreement

If you get way higher FPS & more stable operation out of the same system even if you deliberately kneecap it by running #Linux on a 7200rpm HDD and #Windows on a SATA-6G SSD, you know it's a systemic issue.

• Not to mention the only issues persisting are caused by #Malware like "#DRM" and "#ClientSideAnticheat" which have no legitimate reasons to exist, as there are ways to do both #AntiPiracy and #AntiCheat properly.

#Valve managed to make #Steam something people want. Nothing prevents #EpicGames, #EA & others to make good #Launchers for Linux.

• Only #ServerSideAnticheat actually works reliable, as I know a literally undetectable #Cheating method that is Game- & OS-independent and would only fail in scenarios where the entire setup were to be inspected in person onsite.

@simonriley @fasnix @bsi @young_ullrich
Genau das ist falsch!

Wenn man von z.B. Adobe-Produkten "abhängig" ist, führt an Windows kein Weg vorbei.

Nein, #macOS macht das ganze einfacher und besser. Selbst nen fucking #Hackintosh ist stabiler als #Windows!

Und wenn es an Spiele mit Anti-Cheat-Software geht, geht es auch nicht ohne Windows.

Einfach nicht kaufen! Wer #Malware will muss halt damit leben. Und ja, #ClientSideAnticheat ist Malware genauso wie #DRM!

Und auch ich habe trotz meiner Affinität und Vorkenntnis nicht auf Anhieb bei Mint oder Manjaro alles sofort zum Laufen bekommen.

Was eher Herstellern wie #nvidia liegt denn Usern, und das ist eher Ausnahme denn Regel!

Wer einfach nur den PC nutzen will, dem ist das alles zu lästig.

Nein, die neisten sind einfach #TechIlliterate-#Konsumopfer die zur #Windows-#Enshittification groomed wurden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158bJFTETRI

I.d.R. ist denen das sogar absolut shiceegal was denen vorgesetzt wird, weil denen gehts um ne glorifizierte NSAbook, ShitExpress/eNay/Aperzon, YouNuke-Kiste mit eMail-Zugriff!

Ja, Linux hat enorme Fortschritte gemacht, ist aber immer noch nicht für jeden.

Ja, aber ich würde eher krepieren als die Redmonder Govware jemals anzufassen! Die hat 15 Lebensjahre von mir verschwendet!!!

Allen anderen helfe ich professionell wegzumigrieren!

@freespiritlinux69 ich kann dies eindeutig bejahen.

• Die eibzigen Probleme sind #Publisher die #Malware wie #DRM und "#ClientSideAnticheat" verballern, die keinen legitimen Existenzgrund haben!

@malva @Daojoan I'd consider the same if #EpicGames wouldn't actively prevent me from playing due to lacing #Fortnite with #malware (aka. #ClientSideAnticheat) that won't run on #Linux even if I'd accept that as a necessary evil!

• Cuz there is no legitimate reason they could not offer this due to #ProtonGE as a #Valve / #Steam-free #DXVK / #Proton distro...