Microsoft IS NOT Killing Kernel Anti Cheat!!

Notebookcheck put out an article about a Microsoft blog that they didn't read, YouTubers made videos on it and now a bunch of people think Microsoft is killing kernel level anti cheat but this is a complete lie that they never said.

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[celdaemon]

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[CEOofGameDev]

>microsoft doing something that isn't rubbish

yeah that sounds like someone misread something somewhere...

[aerospherology]

I went from "rare Microsoft W" and then "nvm"

[Karn]

Why read the article when you can make a clickbait title and farm clicks?

[Miranox]

This is Microsoft after all, they will find a way to make the OS worse.

[spatiumowl]

If anti-cheat dies, Tim Sweeney will just write "if(platform=="Linux") std::terminate();" Don't underestimate the pettiness of this guy

[iFlxy]

I'm considering lying to myself that this is going to happen anyway because of the recent GTA V BattlEye Anti Cheat update. It's super annoying.

[gamingonlinux]

Thanks for the shout out fam, the Notebookcheck article was quite silly

I actually had hope for a moment, since the CrowdStrike apocalypse was so drastic.
But now reality is calling me back in saying nothing is going to change.

[Szarps]

Ah good to see my suspicions were effectively correct. I had a feeling that the article was being misinterpreted by people in general as everyone that talked about never mentioned explicitly a complete understanding of what was being said, the fact that at no point it said anything resembling "forbidding access to kernel" or the likes.. this are sad and dangerous times of lack of text comprehension

[cameronbosch]

Most tech outlets: "MiCrOsOfT iS kIlLiNg AnTi-ChEaT."

Microsoft: *Pulls Uno reverse card.*

Linux users: 🙄

[hburke]

"providing continued innovation" is corporate speak for screwing over end users in some way, almost universally.

[mach]

Client-side anticheat is like not bothering to do input sanitation because the frontend will handle it

[PhoN]

Anticheat is not cybersecurity software. More like thing that makes security worse, as demonstrated by attacks exploiting vulnerability in kernel anticheat.

So i wouldn't say its out of the question that microsoft will try to stop kernel level anticheats being used based on this, but its also in no way confirmed to happen. I wouldn't keep hope up unless we actually see games stopping to use kernel level anticheat.

I personally don't really care much about it, i have enough games i can play on linux right now.

[AgentTex]

They don't just need to read the article after all reading is easy.
They need to UNDERSTAND the article that however is far harder for people!

[russjr]

Even in the *best case scenario* if kernel level anti-cheat were to literally go extinct tomorrow, it wouldn't change a thing. Game developers who are hostile to Linux would still find a way to make their games not work on Linux.

Great example of this is Rockstar, they just added BattlEye to GTAV Online and despite the fact that BE supports Linux/Proton - Rockstar won't enable it.

Obviously, I'd love to be wrong on this, but I won't hold my breath... Instead, I will just choose to not partake in those games.

Edit: This was also called out in the video, but I'm saying it again for those in the back

[Beryesa.]

Ah yes, manipulating Microsoft into killing kernel level access (top secret)

[Its-Just-Zip]

While the article is misguided, I do think there is a discussion here that Microsoft and Linux and Apple probably need to have. And I would love to see something get standardized to allow systems to inspect the kernel in a Platform agnostic manner

[Karurosagu]

We should not hope for MS removing kernel level access to third party software such as anti cheat software, we should instead hope for more games and software NOT USING kernel level access in the future

[Coriander]

Hey NotebookCheck it says gullible on the ceiling.