From both a technical perspective and if the maintainers of these anti-cheat will consider porting or re-writing kernel level anti-cheat to work on linux, is it possible? Do you think that the maintainers of kernel level anti-cheat will be adamant in not doing it, or that the kernel even supports it or will support it. I think that if it ever happens, there will be a influx of people moving to linux, or abandoning their duelboots, and that alot of people will hate that such a thing is available on linux.
This is where TPMs, measured boot, and remote attestation come in.
You can run whatever kernel you want, but if it is not an approved kernel, you wouldn’t be able to attest to running an approved kernel; allowing whatever DRM scheme the developer put in to active.
I believe this is how the higher levels of Android’s Play Integrity system work.
When Microsoft first proposed something like that a couple decades ago, it was widely seen as the nightmarish corporate power grab it was. Even mainstream, non-techy publications were critical.
It is.
How the fuck did this become acceptable?
Money. And the fact nothing majorly bad ever happens.
Time and time again people cry and claim horrid things will happen if this or that becomes allowed.
Then because of that smart people make sure it doesn’t happen or when something does it’s so minor that only nerds hear or care about it.
Nothing short of a functional bullet to normal man’s head level of bad will EVER get the avg joe to care. And so long as the avg joe does not care, money is the final say in all decisions.
The crying and claiming of horrid things by very smart people, is typically enough tho to prevent the worse of it. Because those smart people are the ones buying and managing or having enough influences among the people with the money.
So it’s less profitable to anger those smart people.
But end of the day. Money.