Already said it on the thread on [email protected]: Unreal Tournament 2003 came with a bootable DVD that would boot into Linux and launch the game.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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I Wonder if that could be a somewhat mutually acceptable anticheat solution. Launch any competitive game in a custom image that is locked down.
i can see that eventually becoming a thing.
thats a step up from installing spyware on our computers but the real fucking solution would be them having server-side anticheat.
Back in the days of MS-DOS, there was something called "PC-Booters". They were created because of the fact that there was a lot of different operating systems that were actively used. So their solution was to just create a basic OS that contained the bare minimum required to run the game.
Switch to disk 5 to continue.
Systemd-boot detected