I don't understand why an anti-cheat driver inside the kernel would not work.
I mean Red Hat develop tainted kernel a long time ago: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html [External Link]
and a big part of anti-cheat is just improvement over that.
Of course, you would need signed kernel, which would be a deal-breaker for a lot of user.

That would also make anti-cheat unusable with proprietary drivers (so no Nvidia GPU), and would mean that a big part of the anti-cheat would be Free software, and I'm sure peoples working on anti-cheat have no idea how to contribute code.

But if some company starts doing that, I guess this is doable.
Also, kernel-cheat might be a problem today, but kernel anti-cheat can't do anything against hardware cheat, so at some point most anti-cheat will move from kernel-side to AI side. (no sure if it is good news though)

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The first DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® Real-Time Strategy Experience

I did play Dragonshard, and the game was okay, but why lie here ?
Because Blood & Magic was a D&D RTS release in 96, so that make Dragonshard not the first RTS, and it's kind of weird that the first line of the advertisment is a lie.

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Looking at Playtron GitHub [External Link] , they're mostly contributing to launcher stuff (Heroic game launcher, and they hire the guy behind Lutris), they seem to have repos to interact with other store (like steam, gog) and they have RPM stuff for playtron-os.

The dev who seems to contribute to playtron OS also seems to contribute to open-source project. (mostly launcher stuff)

playtron-os (I guess gameos, but it's call playtron-os on GitHub), seems to be base on Fedora, use ostree, and is mostly compatibility tools for linux.

To give them credit where it's due, If I had to make a gaming base distro, and had some money to invest in it, I guess I would use the same strategies. (but use an Arch base distro because I use Arch BTW).

I would have love to see them contribute to mesa, wine and Linux kernel, but I guess it's not something easy to do for a small company, and maybe if they grow bigger they will contribute more to those projects.

The marketing and w3m stuff are kind of a turn-off though, but maybe they just take money from peoples willing to give them, and are really trying to make a good Linux-base distro for handheld.

Maybe the project is a scam, but they give money to open-source dev to improve Linux compatibility with launcher, and this is still a good thing.

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Icewind Dale 2 code source was lost, and it's the reason why we never got an Enhanced Edition of it.

So having gemRB supporting it is incredible.

Also, the prologue of Icewind dale 2 is one of the best RPG prologue I've played.

Trying to prepare the defence of Targos, from a big goblin invasion, while doing a drinking contest in the city tavern, and socially manipulate some ghost to steal a sword she hides, is really all I ask for a game introduction.

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Ok, but will this Game be better than extreme tux racer ?

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Yes I know this is a completely different game, but the name is similar, so the comparison is worth it right ?

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Looks like no Hota 1.7 yet, but work is progressing. Maybe next time!

HTOA 1.7 was release the 31 December 2023 :)

And factory campaign is hard. (but I'm bad at this game)
I don't think HTOA is playable in VCMI though, but nice to see an update here.

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Quoting: EhvisThat's the whole point, it can't be fixed. It isn't even really working right now. What he says is correct. Windows has a limited set of binaries coming from Microsoft and other driver developers.

I'm sorry but this is a big understatement, Windows have a lot of drivers, any hardware manufacturer can make they own driver, and all they need is to have some contract with windows in order to have it sign, which is most certainly a lot less strict into accepting code in kernelland than Linux, as
Linux you have to go though the review process, windows, it's mostly just showing the wallet.

Quoting: EhvisThe Linux kernel can be configured in any number of ways that lead to a near infinite number of possible binaries. And if you rely on knowing what is there, then you have an unsolvable problem.

Yeah that's why red hat(not 100% the feature was made by red hat) develop they way to know if suspicious core are running in kernel land: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html [External Link].
So you can know if suspicious code is running in Linux.

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