Only advice: Don’t install on the same hard drive.

I dont care how many people say “oh it works for me” it works for everyone until it doesnt, and then you spend days fucking about with utilities that you shouldnt be fucking with, and at best it works until it stops working again.

There’s likely little risk that any attack goes after a potential linux partition, but there’s much more risk that either your linux or Windows partition bricks the other.

Im fine with the name change here, but also agree that MineTest is a bit of a lame name for what is pretty much a game engine.

But my point is: What makes that player want to push the “auto win” button? There are lots of games with cheating, but also many more that dont suffer nearly as much from cheating, if at all.

Competitive games, especially ones that lean towards eSports and “real prizes” are going to have some incentive to cheat, but even in this genre there’s games known for cheats and others that have better reputations. The question is what game design decisions can improve the urge of players to seek cheats in the first place.

Kernel anticheat is just like gaming piracy, where developers are constantly fighting ghosts rather than tackling the social issues that encourage the behaviours they want to avoid.

In practice, client side anti cheat is essentially DOA because hardware cheats that analyse the player’s screen on a 2nd computer and proxy inputs to your mouse USB have made it so cheat clients are never actually executing code on the host machine.

At that point, even players cant tell someone is cheating because the cheats aren’t modifying the game state in a noticeable way- they’re still weak to effects that obscure your vision and have inputs that are difficult to differentiate from a “real” player.

IMO cheating is a social problem and one that is totally impossible to beat with rootkits by design.

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Nintendo knows this, but it was an easy $2.3 million and now Yuzu development is essentially halted for the time being, meaning slower progress with switch updates, releases, and new hardware (eg switch 2).

Any victory for the FOSS/emulation community is a pyrrhic one.

Which is funny because of how easy it is to circumvent

Oh my apologies, my pi doesnt handle it well on plex. Didnt realise it at the time and sorta just went with what was easiest to set up before realising I’d need to pay to get transcoding 😔

My raspberry pi doesnt transcode h265 very well at all. Much easier to expand the storage until I can upgrade to something better

Linux preinstalled

two touchpads

7840HS

aw yeah, its gamer time

Manjaro is weird but I wonder if they’ll make it some kind of Manjaro spin? IMO I’d be interested to have Bazzite or something similar on it

Says on the image that its a 7840HS system, so same SOC as top end handhelds like the GPD Win 4, Aya Neo Kun, ROG Ally etc.

This aged well

Valve has been GOATed when it comes to Linux graphics. The Steamdeck is the most solid graphics stack I’ve seen on any Linux device to date.

“Why did I leave Nobara? To try a different distro!”… okay! Have fun I guess?

Exactly what I thought. The competitive, individualistic nature of modern competitive shooters makes cheating far too profitable. Not just in a micro sense (winning a game) but also in a macro sense as these games offer prizes, lootboxes, social fame from winning consistently.

~That helps a bit, but if you watch the video, you can see that the cheats have become so sophisticated that even a server wouldn’t be able to track them. Stuff like offloading display output to a 2nd computer, identifying enemy players and spoofing a mouse’s inputs via a microcontroller to move your mouse to the enemy as if it were a “real” player.

Anti-cheat in general is simply unable to monitor systems at that level of physical complexity, server or client.

Fascinating video!

IMO, the issue is social, rather than a technical one. Competitive games, especially ones that can make people a lot of money through cosmetics, prizes, even just social capital (“high skill” players are the ones that dominate streaming platforms, after all) all provide a real, tangible benefit to the cost of cheating.

Consider the games where legitimate players suffer the most impact from cheating: MOBAs and competitive FPS. Consider games that have limited to no cheating problems: Indie games, single player experiences (duh), cooperative games.

One reason I’ve put 100s of hours into Deep Rock Galactic (ROCK AND STONE!) is because I can get the same multiplayer experience but without the stress or suspicion of competing with others. This might be obvious, but if you think about it the draw of many of these competitive games isn’t just the competitive aspect, but the cooperative aspect.

You could easily play 1v1 on many of these games (Rocket League, CSGO, Valorant all have popular 1v1 modes) but the largest playerbases always exist on the team side of these games: There’s a real draw to working cooperatively towards a common goal.

PvE and Co-op is a massively underlooked gaming paradigm that is thankfully coming into its own after the last few years. DRG, It Takes Two, CoD Zombies, Minecraft, Overcooked etc. all have incredibly dedicated communities and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

Couch/online Co-op totally counter the problems faced by competitive, player-vs-player toxicity and cheating. I know it sounds like a reach, but does it surprise you that gaming genres that emulate capitalism (competition and individualistic profit-seeking) are facing many of the same problems of capitalism (cheating against “legitimate” participants, toxic cultures of “the grind” and many others). Maybe competition, at least in a direct sense, can be a curse to your game from the beginning?

UwUGL

No one said they couldnt ship windows, but IMO its kinda scummy that 9 out of 10 brands will force you to buy windows keys over and over every time you get a new device. AyaNeo just joined em, again.