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Riot Games talk Vanguard anti-cheat for League of Legends and why it's a no for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 7 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate that Riot at least took the time to consider supporting Linux and explaining the situation to the community. Unfortunate that I won't be able to play League of Legends anymore but I guess there's not that much momentum behind a community of only ~800 daily users. Looking forward to switching to DotA.

[–] CluelessDude@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

Sort of unfair when weirdly enough MacOS is ok tho, they didn't consider anything, simply decided not to.

[–] justJanne@startrek.website 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Honestly, supporting linux makes absolutely no sense for vanguard.

If you use vanguard, it's because you're fine with a company taking full control of your system, installing a rootkit tracking your every move.

If you use Linux, at least part of the reason is because you want to take control over your computer back.

To support vanguard on linux, you'd have had to run vanguard as hypervisor with linux running in a para-VM, or you'd have had to modify most of the linux kernel to add tracking and control capabilities that'd never get merged upstream and would break with every update.

The resulting system would be closer to android or a playstation than to actual linux distros.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All the more reason to play Dota 2 instead

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i did that, would not recommend it either

[–] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Curious - why? I've played LOL and the Blizzard one, but I never tried Dota 2

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

just as toxic, frustrating and timewasting. i quit it for the same reasons people say they quit lol. i did play lol for a short while and found it to be that bad too.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I see this as an absolute win