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Will kernel-level anti-cheat ever work on linux?
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Absolutely nothing prevents somebody from writing a kernel level anticheat on Linux.
Users would throw a fit, and it would be way easier to bypass, but it certainly could be made.
It would need to be open source, distributing proprietary kernel modules is a nightmare that can cause the OS to fail to boot after every kernel update. An open source anticheat kernel module would probably be useless and easy to bypass.
It doesn't "need" to be anything. It could be a DKMS module that is mandatory for playing a game.
Whether people would like it and use it is a completely different story.