Where’s the giant creature? If I can’t have a 100ft tiger throw its faeces at villagers, I’m not interested.

Valheim

Seconded. When this came out, I was hooked for months. Perfect FPS roguelike.

It’s Genshin Impact.

The reverse design should be that time Linus gave nvidia the middle finger.

Your question mark key seems to be sticking.

The only part that makes it somewhat clear what the mode is is the part they explain the differences between local co-op and online mode.

This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:

They could have been a little more explicit and called it “online co-op mode” or something, and had a paragraph explaining what it is not just how it’s different to something else.

Build it. Gentoo, Arch, and any other minimalist distro where there’s less userspace fluff out of the box can easily be configured to be incredibly hardened.

Your looking for a desktop distribution that doesn’t really exist out of the box (perhaps Qubes). Android is a mobile OS for a reason and has a different architecture in userspace to accommodate for is threat model and use cases.

Just because desktop distros don’t typically lock down userspace out of the box doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

Edit: Here’s some examples:
Plague Kernel
Hardened Arch Linux
SELinux for MAC
Kernel lockdown
Immutable distro BlendOS
Bubblewrap sandboxing
Firejail sandbox leveraging hardened malloc
Hardened Alpine Linux

I don’t think there’s a distro that goes as hard as mobile except maybe some based on flatpaks rather than package repos of libs and bins. But you can piece your own together based on your requirements and personal threat model.

I’m not trying to be rude but none of these points are true. I imagine you’re confusing a single Linux distribution and their architecture with being representative of Linux as a whole. You can indeed spin an unprivileged, immutable distribution with SELinux for MAC, hardened kernel, and so much more, which would blow Android et al out of the water.

Errrrmmmm I think this is just an issue either with your choice of distro or your approach to security.

The Linux ecosystem has by far some of the greatest security technologies available for modern operating systems. Android is a Linux distribution after all.

Most of the issues with Linux on a phone so far is more the hardware and architecture to support and integrate the hardware.

Major mobile device manufacturers have secure enclaves, cryptographic co-processors, advanced face/depth cameras, fingerprint readers, etc. The system architecture needs to be tailored to the hardware and security architecture for the threat models mobile devices face that you want to mitigate.

iOS is Unix deep under the hood, Android is Linux deep under the hood. The issues here aren’t with the kernels, they’re with userspace, hardware selection, and perhaps the odd supporting driver, service, or interface.

Hop on over to overclockers.co.uk as they sell plenty of AMD gaming laptops but I’d hit up their forums first and ask for advice or give them a call. Someone there will be able to point you towards a decent model that supports Linux well.

PCSpecialist laptops are usually easy to install Linux on. Just be sure to change the operating system to “No operating system required” to save some money by not paying for a Windows license.

Juno Computers ship theirs with Linux preinstalled.

Dell also sell theirs with the option of Ubuntu.

No

Heaven forbid you judge something yourself.

Especially since Adblock Plus take payment to whitelist adverts.

I have a feeling you’re right about this. I do wish Microsoft would take the Apple approach as Apple steamed ahead with deprecating kernel-mode access.

Love them or hate them, Apple take security a lot more seriously than Microsoft these days and it’s a real shame MS see security architecture as a nuisance rather than a core responsibility of their business.

Nope. They’re developing an alternative set of APIs for userspace in conjunction with security vendors for their products to use but it’s all still a long way off and will be optional to start with.

Given the volume of mission-critical devices security products are installed on (which the CrowdStrike fuckup highlighted), getting them out of kernel space would be a huge risk reduction for the world. And security vendors would love to get away from that risk as pulling a CrowdStrike costs a lot of money setting things right with customers.

But an anticheat used by consumers on their personal devices for a game, not such a big deal.

While I’m sure MS will eventually deprecate and then kill off third party kernel drivers, it could take a decade since MS has so much business (both internal and within their customer base) that relies on legacy crap.

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Sorry, it has to be you. You are the chosen one.

You just track the MIT repo and automate the patching and releasing under a different license each time the MIT repo updates.

If the Rust version is released under MIT, simply fork it, rename it, and release under (A)GPL and ensure the community only uses that version. Sorted.