Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

[magic comet]

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/the-arch-linux-team-is-now-working-directly-with-valve-steamos-and-arch-should-both-benefit-greatly

Valve is generously providing backing for two
critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a
build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave.

The enclave is essentially intended to be a way for us to PGP-sign packages with a single signing key instead of how we do it right now, which is with one personal key per packager. It will not benefit Proton or the anti-cheat situation in any way and is completely unrelated.

[narrow depot]

Sigh... Now I gotta switch full time to arch. It's been a good run Ubuntu

[tight gorge]

"It will not benefit Proton or the anti-cheat situation in any way and is completely unrelated." - thanks, that spares y'all of one of my rants, that's all i wanted to know

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How so?

[tight gorge]

i don't want anticheats to make their way in linux

invasive ones that is

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Ah

They already exist just not turned on for whatever reason. Prob because they are not as invasive as the shitheads like epic want

[hybrid portal]

good news is even Windows might be getting rid of kernel-level anti-cheat, thanks to Crowdstrike

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That's in another one of these and it's not really true. Just giving alternative

[hybrid portal]

how is it not true?

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They aren't removing that functionality at all

They are just giving an alternative route to developers to have non kernel level shit in addition to

Go read your article again but look at the source to the MS blog post. They say it pretty clearly. It's just some news outlet wanted clickbait

Fuck clickbait blogs. I block em every time I see that shit

[hybrid portal]

Obviously neither of us can predict the future but I think it’s a little naive to think MS wouldn’t start removing the kernel-level features once the new methods are working. They took a massive amount of heat and had to spend a ton of money dealing with Crowdstrike. If they can prevent that from happening again, I’ll bet you a lunch that they will. Only time will tell…

[tight gorge]

they'd probably just use this as a justification to lock their ecosystem even more tbh

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I'm not sure I'd go so far to say it that way. More it is going to be reserved for privileged partners who they approve