The Nvidia driver doesn’t require rebuilding the kernel, just a kernel module.
I certainly do hope they don’t end up with a solution that shuts out common kernel modules like Nvidia, VirtualBox or ZFS. There’s no way they’re gonna make an anti-cheat that blocks the Nvidia driver though, that wouldn’t make any sense.
The bigger worry IMHO is around what distros it will work on. If they disallow user-compiled kernels, they’ll inherently have to only support specific distros (and derivatives which uses the same kernel), so I hope they’d allow all the common distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE and derivatives of these. I don’t want to end up with these games being blocked by anti-cheat from working on anything but SteamOS and maybe Ubuntu.
The best to hope for would probably be if they can design it so it works anything where Microsoft has provided a Secure Boot certificate, so it will work on any distro that currently supports Secure Boot.
The Nvidia driver doesn’t require rebuilding the kernel, just a kernel module.
I certainly do hope they don’t end up with a solution that shuts out common kernel modules like Nvidia, VirtualBox or ZFS. There’s no way they’re gonna make an anti-cheat that blocks the Nvidia driver though, that wouldn’t make any sense.
The bigger worry IMHO is around what distros it will work on. If they disallow user-compiled kernels, they’ll inherently have to only support specific distros (and derivatives which uses the same kernel), so I hope they’d allow all the common distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE and derivatives of these. I don’t want to end up with these games being blocked by anti-cheat from working on anything but SteamOS and maybe Ubuntu.
The best to hope for would probably be if they can design it so it works anything where Microsoft has provided a Secure Boot certificate, so it will work on any distro that currently supports Secure Boot.