Hopefully this means Bun can now support things that were limitations of the Zig libraries like being able to upgrade standard TCP sockets to tcp without closing them.

Modern games should have:

- Quickplay

- Server / Game / Match finder

- LFG - for a more detailed search

Each of these has a different use case, and a single user may make use of all of them (I include myself here). Not everyone wants to just click "play", it's very dependent on the type of game.

Helldivers 2, for example, implements the first two. Destiny/Destiny 2 has mostly the first one. Destiny on Xbox has a XBL-provided LFG functionality (but prior to that external sites were used). You really needed LFG for finding a raid group.

Vehemently disagree with this. One of the reasons I loved BF4 so much were the community servers, with admins that could kick cheaters / griefers, and you enjoyed playing with the same group of folks. It was also one of the (many) reasons I was not remotely tempted to buy BF6. No servers? Not interested.

You can just click play on a server without having to run one yourself, the enthusiasts do that. Eg: Halo CE, Armagetron, countless others.

> I’m sure there are multiple ways to bypass anti-cheats on Windows.

Of course, you can use DMA over Thunderbolt, but the bar is so high (cost, specialised hardware) that most people who cheat won't do it.

> Does it really matter? You can always ship a statically compiled games

This isn't completely viable, you can't statically link the graphics driver.

Aren’t most DMA cards just PCI-E FPGA things? In any case, DMA doesn’t magically make your shit UD - you can look at Unknowncheats and see.

SteamOS doesn't even ship with secure boot on, it has a long way to go before it's a platform game developers will consider tamper proof.

> "Linux" doesn't need to do anything here. What's missing is for anticheat vendors to develop kernel modules for Linux in addition to their Windows drivers.

With what stable module ABI like Windows has? There isn't one.

You can build a module that targets the current kernel Ubuntu 24.04 is using, but that module won't load on 26.04, let alone a completely different distro like Fedora.

eBPF /might/ help, but one could make a module that lies to eBPF.

Microsoft doesn't need a back door, they can literally sign a new bootchain with the same certificate and install them on your computer.

This is a bug / vulnerability, not a back door.

Some cases OEMs ignore the requirement the other way round, e.g. the MSI boards that perform zero signature checking with secure boot on.

This is the main problem why anti cheats are currenty blocking SteamOS.

I don't think you'd need to block multi tasking though, but the kernel would need to prevent or tamper root access so it couldn't modify the game memory.

You can do it to a degree (basic room detection), but it'll never be 100% accurate because of latency and compute cost, you have to give leeway.

Given the kernel level anticheats inform you they're going to be installed, I don't think they fit the definition of a root kit.

CloudStrike was installed with user consent, and still ended up being a fatal rootkit. Installing software in Ring 0 is always a bad idea.