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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (10 children)

What do the performance metrics look like for the games that won't run on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

you mean the rootkits that won't run on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When did 'rootkit' come to be a generic term for invasive software? Rootkits are a specific type of thing.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Anticheats that run in the NT kernel may as well be described as rootkits, especially as they aren't transparent about exactly what they're doing. Then there's the question of what happens if they get compromised

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