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It's not an excuse when your favorite game only supports kernel-level anti-cheat on Windows.
If enough people stop buying those games because the developer refuses to infect your computer for you, they'll change their tune. Money talks bullshit walks.
Many of these games are free-to-play. At least, mine is. I'm open to alternative games, but none of them scratch that itch.
Yeah at this point the anticheat of the multiplayer military fps genre really is the opiate of the masses keeping windows at the top of gaming market share. Because no OS besides windows would ever allow for something so wildly insecure.
I play the genre, in fact PUBG is one of my favorite games (Judge me as you will), but I made the decision a few years back that my control over my own computer, my privacy and security in my own home, my ideological rejection of the stranglehold microsoft has over the home PC, were all more important than my ability to play a handful of violent, samesie, DoD-funded military apologia.
I have zero regrets. I do miss PUBG from time to time. But no, in the end it wasn't really an excuse to not switch.