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Good to hear progress is being made.

Does it support anti-cheat programs, so WINE/LINUX users won't get banned in online games?

Can verify some/most games using Easy Anti Cheat and all games using VAC run on Linux, using Proton.

But games using the likes of Vanguard (Riot), Javelin (EA) and Ricochet (Activision) which really mess around with your system on kernel level? Forget about it.

And maybe, just maybe, that's even good. These things are nasty and invasive, and due to how they are designed could be even used for exploits and gain low level access to your system.

Which isn't new, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...


If you need a kernel level anti-cheat system just to run a game, why are you wasting time and money on that game in the first place?

Games are supposed to be fun. If you feel the need to compromise your system that much then it stops being fun and starts being addiction.


It is either run the anti-cheat system or get banned from the game online. You are correct, I shouldn't run a game that requires an anti-cheat system and only run Linux Native games with Proton on Steam.

> You are correct, I shouldn't run a game that requires an anti-cheat system

Yes, it's just a game. It's not important. Your life won't be made worse by not playing it.


Its funny how „Games are supposed to be fun“ is also the answer to why there are such sophisticated anti cheat tools needed in the first place. Cheater do lower the fun for other players of course…

I don't think they are needed. Cheaters will always find a way to cheat, giving game developers access to low level kernel features under the guise of anti-cheat is definitely not a trade-off I'd be willing to make. If game makers can't solve a problem with mechanics or moderation, I probably would just not play the game. Most of those issues revolve around MMO things, and could be solved with private lobbies, self-hosting etc - i.e. not playing with randos on the internet.

Vanilla Wine doesn't, but Proton/Proton-GE does. It supports BattlEye, EAC, VAC, and nProtect Gameguard. Maybe a few others I missed out on.

But this means nothing unless game devs/studios actually enable support for it, and unfortunately some companies like Epic and Rockstar just aren't interested in Linux and they just make up blatant lies (like how Rockstar lied that BattlEye doesn't work on Linux, when Valve explicitly said it does, all they need to do is email BattlEye to enable support[1]).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22737127/valve-steam-deck...


The Quya was the Amiga of gaming consoles. With a lack of marketing like the Amiga, it too failed.

What replaced it was the Raspberry PI and Retro PI.


I had infected Polyps in my colon. It was no joke. It hurt really badly having a BM, and I had surgery to cut the Polyps off to avoid Colon Cancer. Cancer is no laughing matter. I'd rather not have cancer than have it and try drugs on it to see which one kills it.

As stupid as the headline sounds -which I concur, sounds rather silly-, it does not mean that.

The article is about organoids [0]. What the quote means is that if a patient had colon cancer, they could extract some tissue from it, grow it -in a dish, in a lab- into an organoid, and then try various options on it to see exactly what works on this specific patient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid


I used MSDN and the MSDN blogs to keep up to date with Visual BASIC 6.0 updates. Things would change in the language, and I wouldn't know that unless I read MSDN docs. I got in trouble for using the Internet, as the Management couldn't see the difference between MSN and MSDN. It was like reading a book, only books go out of date in three months from publishing.

On Firefox on Windows 11 Pro, it just keeps redirecting to a black screen and then a 404 error.


I remember the 1960s Star Trek and Doctor Who had bad special effects, but had the story and acting that made up for it. The story made it real; now we have special effects with AI and supercomputers, but how good is the story? Writers and actors make the difference.


Hollywood acting is basically nonexistent these days.

You get Chris Pratt in to play "Chris Pratt in this situation".

60's Trek was cheesy, but at least they tried.


Yeah it's less about Chris Pratt's ability to inhabit and exude a character, as much as co-branding them film with Chris Pratt's brand as a cross-over.


I thought star trek had good effects, but doctor who was just terrible.

But I was young - and young people are visual but not aware of subtlety.

I also thought the original batman was an action show. Decades later I watched it as an adult and it was a comedy, and hilarious.


Batman '66 was campy; they tried to dumb it down for kids and censored the violence with Biff and Bam effects like the comic had.

There are a lot of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals going around. Amazon already has Black Friday deals. I was able to buy TurboTax 2025 Home and Business for $95 instead of $129. I hear that on Black Friday, the streaming services will have deals for subscriptions.


cool!


Don't forget that BeOS was also written for these CHRP computers.


Oh, Dad, we are all DEVO!


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