Looking through their Discord it seems there hasn’t been any details yet regarding how this is going to work if this indeed is real. I highly doubt Faceit would want to vastly weaken their effectiveness on Linux in the same way EAC and Battleye do by running it as a user process. Even if just speculation, that would mean a kernel module that would need secure boot enabled (though even that is not required for the windows variant in battlebit) with a signed kernel and so on and would only work for specific distros?
From the statement above and other comments, it’s a new FaceIt product sometimes described as “lite”, which gives me the impression it is a Usermode anti-cheat.
Yeah, looking at the weekly recap stream where they actually talked about it, it is indeed a new anti cheat like you mention that (according to their own statement) is still more effective than “what they have now” (that being eac). youtu.be/nIay2Aq2ars?t=702Apparently they want to do a stream again with the team from Faceit talking about it in more detail.
@falsem@Voytrekk because they always want to be remembered in history for something good, and they're desperately trying to make something that will eventually, through no try of their own, end up both good and ethical. Also, they want people to use their stuff more, so that they can eventually make it proprietary or something.
Yeah I am currently using my steam deck as a main desktop drive, I was blown away at how good this operating system is. I can’t go back. I just can’t. The only thing that pisses me off is that I can’t use adobe software, but hey my wallet is thanking me.
What really makes me happy, is no ads. No store, no xbox icon, no bloatware, no <activate windows>, no edge being like a jealous gf, no programs to install programs, no windows defender making me paranoid, no firewall, no forced graphics chosen for me by microsoft, no ten ways to do the same action…
Honestly I don’t know why I didn’t switch. I remember trying to get a computer without windows and my brother advising against it, I want to go back in time and slap him from depriving me from such a well conceived experience.
It's wild to me how native proton feels in so many games. Though, I'll still have a special place in my heart for Super Tux Kart, Warsow, Armagetron Advanced, 0 A.D. et al. Not to mention all the ports Feral Interactive has done over the years.
I’m probably not getting NVIDIA for my next card, but this certainly is a step in the right direction. If they prove they can keep up with the Linux ecosystem and play nice (e.g. the debacle around Wayland), I’ll consider getting one.
For now, AMD provides a fantastic Linux experience and that’ll need to be matched for me to even consider NVIDIA. NVIDIA used to be way better on Linux, but they broke that trust and it’ll take a while for me to give them another shot.
I assume not, but there is a command-line client, steamcmd. I used it the other day when I wasn’t near a machine that I had Steam installed on to remotely install FTL on a machine via ssh that I had Steam installed on so that I could copy it to a remote laptop, which I didn’t have Steam installed on (FTL is one of the games that doesn’t use Steam for DRM)
I’d imagine that one could theoretically slap an open-source frontend on that.
EDIT: Also, graphical frontends aside, it doesn’t even have readline/editline support, so running it via:
…is already throwing a minimal open-source frontend on it that rather improves the experience.
EDIT2: I don’t care that much about most of Steam, but I do wish that the downloader portion of Steam were open source so that I could push a patch to let one cap the number of concurrent TCP connections open. Normally, a saturated network connection will tend to allocate bandwidth evenly on a per-TCP-connection basis, and because Steam opens a ton of concurrent connections, it gets the lion’s share of the connection…for Steam downloads, which are very much low priority, and which I don’t want trying to eat up all the bandwidth.
EDIT3: There’s apparently some Linux ncurses-based client that uses library injection to take over the graphical client, but that repo last saw a change 6 years ago, and I’d bet that it hasn’t worked in a long time. Looking at steam_injector.c, It looks like it prevents XMapWindow() from running, so it should keep the graphical client from actually doing anything graphical.
This is an incredibly wrong way to do it and absolutely terrible advice.
The point of a modding tool is that it keeps your actual game directory clean, and that mods don’t end up physically overwriting either the game’s files or each other’s files.
I have just recently reinstalled and remodded skyrim with MO2! I chose MO2 specifically because it has a linux version which I downloaded off the github.
I have found that MO2 has a lot of functionality built in that just isn’t well explained in the tutorial. and it can be quite daunting to start.
For one, you don’t have to worry about skse. it comes with that when you choose Skyrim as the instance of MO2 you want to make. MO2 will then launch every time you launch Skyrim. And once it launches, you have all the options!
From MO2, you can choose to run different versions of skyrim. it can run the vanilla PC launcher for you if you want to manually set your graphics settings.
It can launch directly with SKSE, which is what you’ll need for most mods. (if you’re playing modded skyrim, you’ll likely be launching from here most times unless there’s specific settings in the basic launcher you want to change)
It also comes with LOOT (which is a load order optimizer) already preinstalled. You just have to click the button to have it sort your load order for you. The load order is usually decent enough for most modlists (depending on size) but there are many guides to load orders for skyrim if you’re interested in changing things around to be better optimized for your needs.
my advice is honestly sit down and take some time to kinda go over where everything is. Before MO2 I was a vortex person. I am considering never going back.
if you have any specific questions, I can maybe try to help.
Hi there, whoever suggested linux for your switch played a mean joke on you. Granted, arch works well if you know what you‘re doing, apparently. But no way it is a good starting distro.
I‘m not sure how eldenring works on linux but most games run without problems.
One little caveat is this: you need to understand that windows is a billion dollar product while linux is mostly community driven. It costs nothing, except many people donating their time. So I‘d suggest adopting a „its insane that hobbyists are able to build something like this“ view. Otherwise you‘ll get frustrated and will end up im privacy invasive windows territory again.
If you want a more gaming ready distro, try pop os or bazzite. Good luck
linux_gaming
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.