EA’s Anticheat will screw over Steam Deck gamers…

Electronic Arts has never been friendly to Linux. I can only think of one instance where an EA studio has even tacitly helped us. With that in mind, I can’t help but feel like we’ll never see native support. And we don’t want it, anyway. These over-privileged babysitting anticheat solutions give OS-level access to less-than-trustworthy game devs and leave a gaping hole in OS security.

That’s why I’m proposing Valve start developing an open source Windows kernel and Proton virtualization scheme. Effectively, they’d have a containerized, open source version of Windows they could ship alongside games that need these anti-customer anti-cheat schemes.

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EA’s new in-house Anticheat may screw over Deck gamers…

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