That is still kicking it out of the kernel. For all functional purposes anyways.

The short of it to what I understand is they want to provide an official standardized way for anti virus and anti cheats and other software that would normally live in the kernel to do what it needs to.

Basically making everything live in user space unless it's made by microsoft. It should result in basically there being an entire layer between the kernel and the user and their software.

For anyone in the future, I figured out how to turn off the edge tiling thing (which is what it's called when a window touches the edge and it wants to resize it)

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling false per https://askubuntu.com/questions/1107089/how-to-disable-auto-resizing-of-windows-when-moved-to-the-top

Yeah I don't get it when just playing music or watching video. It's mostly been when playing Guild Wars 2 in scenes with a lot of players. I wonder if there's something like "when the CPU is in high demand, the audio gets less priority" happening. I saw some posts about a cpu "niceness" value but I'm not familiar enough to fuss with it, and it's not a big deal right now.

I don't think I know what gamemode is. Is it https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode ?

I'll do some searching for crackling next time I'm at the desktop

There are also rumors that Microsoft will remove third-party apps like antivirus apps and anticheats from Windows kernel. If that happens, it will pretty much solve the anticheat problem for Linux as well.

passthrough your GPU and hide the fact that the VM is a VM.

Careful with that, I've heard of folks getting banned because it can still look fishy.

Just avoid the games that use them.

Agreed. I have no desire to give EA root access to my system, full access to everything I do on it ... just to play a game.

I'm amazed Microsoft even allows such on their platform, given how large of a vulnerability it creates; as CrowdStrike demonstrated.

The only way to do that is to use Linux anyway, ditch Windows, and give them the middle finger until they make their game available. No amount of asking politely or screaming obnoxiously will make them care if people just continue using Windows because they feel like they "have to" play this game and keep paying them money, because all they care about is money. Only when they can clearly see their position is losing them money (3% is probably not clear enough for many of them but time will tell) are they going to change their behavior. There's nothing else that motivates them more than seeing money slipping through their fingers.

Depending on white knights like Valve and CDPR to ride to our rescue is good but they can't do this on their own either, and in fact they've already done very close to as much as they reasonably can. They need our help, we consumers are the ones who are statistically not doing our part. We need to recognize that we have the bulk of the agency here and we need to start to use it.

We have to choose what matters more to us, the future of playing video games on our own terms or letting the developer dictate how much we need to spend and what rights we need to give up to able to play a popular video game right now. We're not talking about something we need to live. This is a choice we can make. Will enough people choose the future instead of immediate gratification? I don't know, available evidence doesn't paint a particularly reassuring picture, but I never am willing to give up on hope.

It's genuinely more complicated than that, honestly. Apple did a great job of pretending these ARM devices were on par with desktop PC hardware when they... kind of aren't, in absolute terms. I wonder how much of an incentive they have to keep doing this if the result is their top of the line five grand devices start to look like mid-range PCs and the bullshit way their naming conventions are designed starts getting exposed by widespread FPS counts on tentpole game releases. I genuinely don't think Apple wants to have that conversation.

So if anything it seems weird to me that they are focusing on this. Honestly, getting triple-A releases ported to phones and tablets seems like a much safer bet. I guess it's just hard to leave the laptop and desktop users entirely out of the loop for no good reason, but they have a lot of experience doing just that, so who knows.

It seems pretty obvious that unifying the software is the next step for them after unifying a lot of the hardware. what that means for gaming on their devices is anybody's guess.

And of course I don't particularly care because... I mean, macs.