this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Serious?

Well I know what I’m doing tomorrow…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I Wonder if that could be a somewhat mutually acceptable anticheat solution. Launch any competitive game in a custom image that is locked down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago
Switch to disk 5 to continue.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Systemd-boot detected