[fooqux]

No, I'm pretty sure it's there because installing something that runs at ring 0 can do anything on your system. Look at all your internet traffic, files, make you go bald, etc.

Any sane security-minded person should slightly panic IMHO.

[AdamJacobMuller]

Or just run games on a computer dedicated to the task.

[0_gravitas]

Of course you understand that that is not a reasonable solution.

[jarfil]

There are gaming consoles, or you can just not run their games, it's not like there aren't literally thousands to choose from. They're also just games, cheating is not a life or death thing, or it shouldn't be.

Alternatively, you could stream a game from a remote server like on Stadia. These anti-cheat systems are only for online games anyway, and you can let Google deal with their kernel driver.

[AdamJacobMuller]

I didn't write a comment suggesting a thing because I considered it unreasonable and on reflection, no, I don't think it's unreasonable.

[foota]

Can't you just run two oses alongside each other?

[AdamJacobMuller]

"annoying" when dealing with graphics cards / passthrough if you're talking about virtualization and probably would not be allowed since the hypervisor would be a ring above the kernel module, effectively neutering it.

If you mean dual-boot, sure, that's a very reasonable solution as well. I just don't like to reboot often and would personally have a 2nd computer as it probably takes me an hour or more to go from "booted" to "productive"