@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device

paco@infosec.exchange

@avoca Sorry. Yeah, I was a bit gruff. I've been in infosec for 25 years. I have heard every conversation that can be heard about passwords, passphrases, passkeys, and all the other pass-stuff. You can't know that. There's no reason for me to be grouchy at you. Sorry.

keithduthie@mastodon.nz

@paco @rspfau @avoca Imagine instead making a passphrase using a word that you can reliably misspell.

ed@livellosegreto.it

@paco sadly, I think there's nothing to do about Apex: https://www.protondb.com/app/1172470

lenny@piaille.fr

@paco For Apex, I’m afraid the game include an anticheat at kernel level on Windows which makes it now impossible to run on Linux. Same for League of Legends.

My advise is to keep a Windows partition just for those online games

paco@infosec.exchange

@lenny Yeah, that's not an option. My son is not going to reboot into entirely different operating systems (and keep both of them up-to-date) just to change what game he's playing. I don't blame him.

He plays online with friends, not alone. Of course he doesn't want to say "hang on, mate, I need to reboot my PC into Windows and then we can play..."

He's got a Mac for doing anything important, and his PC for playing games. I think that's the best I can do.

mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org

@paco Yeah, can attest.

EA, and their anti-cheat, is really Linux Hostile. I've had to catch smoke from my kids for never getting to play games like Apex Legends (because I've *only* supported Linux gaming rigs in this house), and arguments like "It's not that your computer won't run it, there's just some companies that don't want you to run it on Linux." ring hollow in a teenager's ears.

Sorry for your loss.

mrbones909@mastodon.social

@paco You can get Rocket League working via Heroic Games Launcher, it's a great replacement for the Epic Games app on Linux. I play it with my brothers every now and then. I don't know anything about Apex unfortunately, do you know if it'll run in a virtual machine? If your kid is on a desktop rather than a laptop it may be possible to do a vm with GPU pass-through, but idk if that's worth the effort or feasible.

paco@infosec.exchange

@mrbones909 that’s a neat idea. I hadn’t thought of running windows in a VM. But it’s a ton of work.

crampi@eldritch.cafe

@paco Rocket League runs great on steam proton

bruce@darkmoon.social

@paco

EA seems actively hostile toward Linux. My gut says its more about a general aversion to open source among the c-suite, but I could be wrong.

paco@infosec.exchange

@bruce I know less than nothing, because I barely play any games like this. But if I were to hazard a guess, I can think of 2 reasons that feel way more plausible to me than the cheating BS.

Anything you build, you have to support at least a little. And they probably see the labour (I.e.cost) of Linux stuff as not worth the revenue. All tech companies are in a firing mood right now. They only support the middle of the bell curve. Innovation is gone. Return-on-investment is the only game in town.
Steam is a competitor. So hurting the steam deck doesn’t really hurt EA?

“But whatever the reason, their heart or their shoes, they stood there on Christmas Eve, hating their users.”