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Re:Thank You, Valve by judge2020 on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:05AM (#30245000)
> Add on the fact that these programs are black boxes by design, and all of the sudden a company essentially has free reign to do whatever they want with your machine under your nose.

Unless you run flatpak, nix, lxc containers, or some other process isolation scheme, all programs on eg. A debian desktop have this sort of free reign. It’s not uncommon for accidents to happen that take out chunks of a system[0].

0: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...

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Re:Thank You, Valve by gurkendoktor on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:18AM (#30246861)
> Unless you run flatpak...

Well yes, sandboxing should be the goal! Installing Steam from Flathub is a good first step on desktop machines. But as long as games require anti-cheat software at the kernel level, I'll keep a Windows partition around to sandbox the gaming world as a whole.

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Re:Thank You, Valve by account42 on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:15AM (#30245919)
A more topical example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
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