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Don't care unless they drop the kernel level anti cheat
I believe the rumour mill had this requiring the TPM secure boot.
This is what stopped a lot of users upgrading to windows 11 also.
I mean 2042 already requires Secure Boot sooo this is pretty much set in stone.
It does?
The free weekends never required it
They enabled it in one of the most recent updates. No idea why they would do that but they did.
i don't know if you've ever seen professional competitive fps gamers, but their aim and hearing can be insane. they're almost equivalent to an aimbot. They can react in a hundred milliseconds and then lock on a head to such an extent that it really does look like a lock-on. When the enemy moves very fast they can still predict enemy movement based on their player character's animation, keeping the lock-on. Flying enemies are at their mercy as well, because they fly in a predictable arc. They can perfectly counter weapon recoil patterns because they've trained on them. I know there's the valve approach of banning cheaters based on suspicious behavior, but at an extremely high level it's almost impossible to separate cheaters from extremely good players, especially if the cheating gets more subtle. I really do dislike kernel anticheat and I use linux myself, but there are reasons for it.
Kernel level anti cheat will not save you from cheaters. It only creates another vulnerability that opens us up to exploits and kills users privacy.
Even if you are okay with it, it doesn't work with linux.
i know, that's why i mentioned it. i don't mind losing out on games with kernel anticheat. if you really do want a big battlefield shooter, battlefield 4 is still an option. if you want something smaller then maybe you can try the finals, which also breaks free from the hero shooter genre a little. if you do want a hero shooter then marvel rivals also works on linux. i don't think you're missing out on a lot. maybe battle royale shooters? fortnite, pubg and cod warzone won't run on linux, but to some that's also a benefit.