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interesting. i was not aware of that. and i would not be surprised if microsoft tries that again, so the threat remains.

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Some mainstream gaming channels on youtube are already half recommending linux except for online games. Really doubt microsoft would have the balls to try something like that now

curious, i wonder why not online games? i play a few online games on linux just fine. they are not the newest ones, but that's the thing, any older games work, online or not, and only some of the newest don't, and that's only because wine/codeweaver/valve didn't get around to implement the fixes for wine for those games yet.

microsoft doesn't need courage, they just need a few leaders dumb enough to try again.

Probably various flavours of anti-cheat still being very much hit or miss at the moment.

(Still annoyed that Rockstar added BattlEye to GTA Online one day out of the blue, _and_ refuses to set the flag to allow it to work in Linux)

ok, good point. anti cheat only makes sense for multiplayer, so only online games. didn't think of that.

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