• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    Well this article is pretty disingenuous…

    1. The distribution “managed by a single person” depends on hundreds of people working on different sofware to keep up. It’s not “one person doing better than the thousands of Microsoft employees combined” implication they are pushing

    2. Windows 11 beat the linux distros by up to 20% in 1% lows which are argued as much more important by most tech reviewers. It wasn’t consistant at all which means that there was a giant margin of error.

    I love linux and linux gaming has gotten radically better, but I am tired of tech “journalism” literally just cherrypicking, misleading, clickbait trash.

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      10 months ago

      Not to mention the major hurdle for Linux gaming is anti cheat software being brought over. Too many games are 100% unplayable because the devs don’t allow their anticheat to be installed on Linux systems

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          Client-side anti-cheat has always been a scam to offload server processing onto client machines.

          This results in worse cheat detection and wastes client resources, but companies like EA can spend less on servers.

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            10 months ago

            It also doesn’t work. I know that’s what the parent comment said, but it’s a total scam at the company level too.

            “Oh, server networking is hard to do right. Let’s do it client side”

            “Oh, people are cheating. Let’s add anticheat”

            Ensue 3 years of fixing network consistency bugs and playing whackamole with cheaters

            I’ve developed games where the client is the source of truth, and games where it’s the server. It is almost always better to do anything that will be developed for more than a few weeks serverside.

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              10 months ago

              >client is the source of truth

              >company doesn’t like the clients truth