The Adobe Suite and those multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat are probably the two things holding up the Windows’ crumbling empire. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Microsoft pays those companies a boatload of money to remain effectively Windows-exclusive.

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dpoloncsak 2 days ago | parent [-]

There was a great write-up that resurfaced on HN yesterday on specifically why anti-cheat on linux is so difficult. It has nothing to do with companies paying a boatload of money.

Adobe, I can't comment on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980064

	▲	godelski 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Isn't the current CoD anti cheat system also flagging Valorant as cheating software because of Valorant's anti cheat?[0] Fundamentally the problem with any anti cheat system is that it is indistinguishable from a root kit. You're giving software full privileges to your machine with the ability to edit your kernel, inspect running processes, and inject code into running processes. I'm not saying there's no situations where you don't want a program to be able to do this but you should be extremely cautious about doing so because that program essentially owns your machine. Put it this way. Suppose you trust those game companies and their anti cheat software. Do you trust that this software will never be hacked? I mean we're talking about an extremely high profile target with wide adoption. Sounds like you're adding a pretty valuable target that's worth far more to hackers than it is to the game studios. I mean we're talking about the same game studios that let easily solvable but game breaking bugs persist for years. Even ones where the community has provided patches for... [0] <https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/battlefield-6-and-valorant...>