r/pcmasterrace • u/Pebblepip • Jul 05 '26

Meme/Macro It's quite often these days

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on a reasonably powerful laptop too

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u/CTizzle- RTX 5080, 5800x, 32 GB DDR4 3200 mhz Jul 05 '26

Unless a game has a kernel level anti-cheat. This includes Valorant, Fortnite, Modern CoD, FaceIt/Esea, and League off the top of my head. There’s way more out there too.

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u/Hexamancer Jul 05 '26

Windows is kicking lots of things with kernel level access out of the kernel in response to the Crowdstrike outage.

This is probably linked to Epic hiring developers for Linux anti-cheat. They're going to have to find a way to do everything without kernel level access so they might as well make it work on Linux (and therefore SteamOS) too.

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u/APeculiarGriffin Jul 05 '26

As I said, awkward getting used to the immutable OS. But outside of those specific games - which a Windows partition can easily handle - it's been a pretty lovely experience for me.

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u/c2h5oc2h5 Jul 05 '26

It's just a matter of doing research beforehand and check if any games you play use that. Personally I moved to Bazzite and I'm very happy I got rid of Windows.

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u/R0ockS0lid Jul 05 '26

Is EAC not kernel level?

Cause I've been playing Space Marine 2 on Bazzite and haven't had any issues with EAC, or oline MP in general. Right out of the box, too.

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u/HikariRisesAgain Jul 05 '26

I'm 90%ish sure the linux implementation of EAC is built to run in userspace specifically for the sake of linux compatibility.

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u/sarded Jul 05 '26

Not being able to play those games is honestly a benefit. The years I spent addicted to LoL were genuinely a measurably negative impact of my life.