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by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 739 days ago
The solution to that is dedicated/community servers not stronger cheat prevention.
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The Anti cheat stuff along with some graphical glitches on some games (namely the original Deus Ex, ancient I know but I love it) meant I couldn't fully commit to Steam on Linux. But booting up the Master Chief Collection and signing into Xbox live to play Halo 3 on Linux at better framerates than Windows really tickled my sense of irony, what a feat they've managed!

And I also miss community maintained dedicated servers, with some opinionated admin who boots off cheaters. I don't like installing the kernel-level anti cheat stuff even on Windows, it is no better than that Sony BMG rootkit that kicked up a storm years ago, now we just accept it in the rear for some reason. Centralisation ruins everything.

Community servers can't offer strong cheat protection. If you can modify the client then you can cheat most of the time, and the server can't necessarily do anything.