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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by throwaway01934 on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:44PM (#44991324)
> User mode software can spy on your clipboard, surreptitiously take screenshots, and take data out of your system

Not on any properly secured Linux machine. But yes, it's generally a bad idea to install software you don't trust, a category that anticheats slot nicely into, given their resistantance to auditing and analysis.

Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by vilunov on Friday August 22, 2025 @09:42PM (#44992193)
A properly secured Linux machine is a unicorn. The Linux desktop ecosystem is struggling a lot with putting software in namespaces. People still install software with their package managers outside Flatpak, there is no isolation of data, not to say many workflows depend on the whole user directory being available to access.