Yeah I mean it might be stupid but it’s also a real nothingburger. This is like if the trailer aired at 3am and you fall asleep and watch it when you wake up at 9am.

You are forgetting number 4 which is already impacting the industry: people preferring to watch TikTok instead of playing games

I still have rather fond memories of shopping at Walmart in Germany. Tho I was a child and it always was more of an experience than a chore. Then Wexit happened and the world’s gone to shit ever since

You went to MIT
I went to the University of Potato
We are not the same

Ye but that’s easy I mean like full-on KDE apps

I was gonna mention docker because I have a feeling it was created partly just to solve this issue, but it really only works for CLI tools and not GUI ones, so I decided against it.
Docker is a bit of a overkill solution but tbf it works really well.

I don’t know where my Linux journey takes me next yet, but I only half way agree with this post. Arch is not quite as bad as this post makes it out to be, but there’s definitely always a bit of russian roulette involved in whether your system boots tomorrow or not (most of the time it does).
I just had my EndeavourOS (which is just a thin layer on top of Arch) kill itself and some weird-ass hyperspecific flags in the initrd build process brought it back to life.
Tho in the ~10 years of using arch now I’d say it was still preferable to the extremely stable experience, and I don’t think recommending Debian Stable is such a good idea either.
Yeah I could unfuck my EOS system with a bit of trickery, but once you get a good franken debian going, when that thing breaks there’s no rescue.
I’ve had some stuff on Arch break after an upgrade too because some config variable names changed. I rember when I had KDE with i3 going and one day the desktop was gone. Was just because the variable names in KDE had changed and a quick i3 config change was all that was needed.
Having to selectively install packages from other sources because the main repo will keep you on a too outdated version for 6 months is just not a viable idea in today’s world.

There are luckily more than just these 2 options.

honestly idk how much of a diff it makes and I really don’t care. I wholeheartedly disagree that it’s a massive win if the system catches a few cheaters if the system is designed around “guilty until proven innocent”.
It’s absolutely possible to design a game in a way that makes cheating basically impossible or severely nerfs it without an anti-cheat. And even if you didn’t want to do that, the fact that dedicated servers have become a incredibly rare sight also contributes to this issue.
It’s all for the bottom line. Spend as little time in development as possible and extract as much money from players as possible, at all costs.
I just can’t sit here and say kernel level anti-cheat is good if it works.

Yup, as happened during my most recent linux suicide, dracut just waits infinitely for a device to mount (tho it drops into a emerg shell after like 3 mins or so).

Anti cheat will always be bypassed. BF6, requiring secure boot, had cheats during the open beta. And this will always be true due to the nature of how computers work. You would need to have a dedicated computing device that does nothing but play a specific game in order to ensure cheating isn’t possible; think tamagochi but for league of legends.

Idk if this is a hot take but „no limit“ should straight up not exist. Just set a limit and blow the whole PC up when it takes too long.

HOLY SHIT IT WORKED! Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

ok this is surprising, ill try it out in a few

idk but there’s probably dozens of those. I don’t know what Rito are thinking and I kinda don’t want to. Intrusive anti cheat doesn’t work but those companies don’t care. Unfortunately, in the rat race between cheaters and anti cheat devs, actually developing a game solidly such that cheating is basically impossible has not been thought of yet. I also suspect “”“”““micro””“”“” transactions are a major driving factor here.

The problem is that games like LoL or Valorant are kinda made so that you “need” to have a dedicated LoL PC. You’re not supposed to install these games on your main PC. Because these games are so highly competitive with real cash prizes involved, the devs ask for more control over your PC than typical games. It’s not a Windows vs Linux thing, it’s about control.
I’m not condoning this practice but it helps to understand why the situation is like this.

Well I can still access all the data from a live usb so I already backed up the most important stuff.

I did all that and more already. That’s why I ultimately gave up. It’s rare that I can’t fix a Linux issue, but this is one of those rare cases.

Yeah from what I found that whole “udev create the drives” thing holds true, but I gotta say, that’s above my paygrade :D
I couldn’t find out how I could tell udev to mount the drives already. I only found one thing where someone said his problem was fixed by telling dracut not to include udev, but dracut immediately was like “im not gonna build u a initrd without udev cause all those other modules rely on it”… fair enough.

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I’m on a RTX 4080 so I’m most definitely not switching to AMD just for Linux’s sake. Tho as I sad EOS worked perfectly out of the box with all my hardware which was quite a surprise to me. I’ve had bad NVIDIA experience in the past, but that was also like 10 years ago with a Quadro card so… :D
More surprising was that my audio interface worked, but since it doesn’t have Linux drivers, all Linux could do was play audio thru it, so most of the cool functionality just doesn’t work.