The recent SteamOS update fixed a lot of my dock issues, seems like everything is working pretty well for me right now. I don't have the official dock though, just a cheap 3rd party one.
That's unfortunate to hear, gamingonlinux has been a really good source for news, so I hate to hear he's not been handling mod stuff respectably.
I should probably mention some notable downsides to kernel anti-cheat as well:
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Because kernel anti-cheat has full access to your PC, if any virus/etc can take advantage of a security vulnerability in the anti-cheat program, it gains absolute access to your PC.
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Kernel anti-cheat needs special signing keys to get access to the kernel, but the more companies that get access to the keys the more likely it is to have compromised keys. Genshin impacts keys were compromised and used to sign ransomware, giving it full kernel access on any computers it was able to get on.
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Devs have used kernel anti-cheat to secretly install Bitcoin miners on users machines
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Kernel anti-cheat can be compromised and used to directly gain control of a users PC. Some apex legends streamers had their PCs compromised and cheats installed remotely through their anti-cheat during a tournament.
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A lot of anti-cheat programs are created by Chinese companies or companies that are mostly owned by Chinese companies. China is well known for spying on users, and there's a ban on a lot of Chinese hardware due to spying concerns and backdoors that the Chinese government requires to be in their devices. I think the invasive nature of kernel anti-cheat makes it an obvious spying platform, and I think it's absurd to think that any anti-cheat coming from China isn't actively spying on you.
Running in the kernel let's anti-cheat see everything on your computer, let's devs take screenshots or videos of your screen, and let's the anti-cheat reinstall itself if the user tries to remove it. It also lets the developers secretly install additional software if needed for some reason. Overall it's pretty effective at being able to catch user space cheat programs, the catch is that you're permanently compromising the security and privacy of your computer, and nothing short of a full disk purge will guarantee it's actually been uninstalled.
The other catch is it's can still be defeated by kernel-level cheat programs, which are now widely available thanks to the rise of kernel anti-cheat. It also can't do anything about cheat programs that run on external hardware, such as aimbots that just look at your video feed and simulate mouse inputs to aim.
So it really comes down to how bothered you are by cheaters in your games, and if you're willing to give up your privacy and security to make it slightly more inconvenient for those cheaters to cheat.
Playing with it on my own computer, locally hosting it and running it offline, has been pretty cool. I find it really impressive when it's something open source and community driven. I also think there are a lot of useful applications for things that are traditionally not solvable with traditional programming.
However a lot of the pushed corporate AI feels not that useful, and there's something about it that really rubs me the wrong way.
What windows components are you trying to install using protontricks/winetricks? Also is this the steam version, or from a different store?
Edit: I'll go ahead and post some things to try:
- In protontricks or winetricks (depending on if you're using proton or wine to run the game), select the prefix for that specific game (has to be correct prefix or it won't work), select "Install a windows DLL or component", and then try installing
vcrun2022. There are different versions of vcrun depending on the year, so if that one doesn't work maybe an older one might. - Try running the game with GE-proton, installable through ProtonUp-Qt in the discover store. It comes with a lot of extra libraries and components, and it will let some Visual C++ games run without requiring anything else.
- Try installing visual C++. There are a couple ways to do this, you can download the .exe for it and run it through protontricks/winetricks. Launchers like heroic also add an option to run a different .exe file, which should work too if you're running the game from a launcher. If you're having trouble finding the right prefix or otherwise getting protontricks/winetricks to work, you can also just put the vcredist executable in your game folder, copy the game executable file name, and then add ".original" to the end of the end of the game executable file name. Then rename the vcredist executable to have the game's original file name. When you run the game, this will instead run the installer for visual c++. You can then go delete the c++ installer, remove ".original" from the end of the game's executable file, and try it again.
I suspect we may see a lot of countries get pushy about trying to encourage people to have kids. There were lots of short term economic benefits to pushing families into having both partners working, but in the long term countries are still built around needing a growing population to do well.
You can offset lower birthrates with immigration to an extent, but itherwise we would need pretty major social changes to sustain society if birth rates continue to decline.
Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.
Just to make sure:
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The games will run on other platforms, just fail to run if you have the save file from the deck?
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Have you tried an md5 check or anything to make sure the save files aren't somehow being corrupted during sync?
I remember one of my first thoughts on the Deck was "even if this fails commercially or can't play any new games, I want it for old games and emulation. Even if it goes nowhere else, it would be worth it for me."
I have a 3rd party dock, but it's worked pretty well on the 3.6 beta as far as those issues are concerned.
This is over not being able to install kernel anticheat on linux. However that same Apex anticheat was used to hack players devices during a tournament earlier this year.