r/pcmasterrace • u/DannyDorito6923 7800x3d| x670e MSI Tomahawk| 32gb DDR5 6000mhz| 7900xt | • May 03 '24

Are you guys excited about Windows 12? Meme/Macro

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u/LOPI-14 PC Master Race May 04 '24

Or are there extra layers of hidden pain?

Most competitive multi-player games with ring-0 anti cheat will not work on Linux, which I personally consider a really good thing, but if you wanna play those, Windows is the only way sadly.

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u/yawn_brendan May 04 '24

Oh yeah that's a good point. Luckily I fucking suck at games and don't play anything competitive 😂

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u/drunkexcuse 5700G | 7900XT | 32GB 3600MHz | arch btw May 04 '24

You're lucky you don't wanna play games with ring-0 anticheat. Nobody should. They're actual viruses.

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u/yawn_brendan May 04 '24

Nerdy note: I think it would actually possible to build anticheat that isn't a rootkit using SGX/SEV. It's possible to remotely verify a cryptographic proof that you are running a given piece of code, unmodified, on a verified Intel/AMD CPU (and IIUC there are extensions to do this attestation for GPUs too).

It's weird and surprising that (I think) this is possible. But I think the software effort to make this happen would just be way too significant.

Unfortunately (well, it was a good decision, but unfortunately for this one specific theoretical reason) I think both Intel and AMD have removed these features from their consumer chips.