I’m a firm believer that inching towards a more private life and future is a good thing in and of itself. However, I also believe that striving for a healthy social life and finding individual happiness is very important.
One area that I’m a bit lost on how to achieve better privacy is gaming. I also believe this is an area that is often overlooked. Do you all have any tips, tricks, or guides on how to game while retaining some level of privacy?
Specifically I’m referring to privacy from corporations, governments, and to a lesser extent friends. I’m also thinking about all types of games, from MMOs, to competitive FPSs, to RTS Games, to RPGs.
With Linux gaming becoming increasingly viable in conjunction with the mainstream success of the Steamdeck, I would imagine one idea for most people is kicking windows to the curb.
Linux + using alt names does a fair bit at keeping things mostly private/anonymous. Discord is the one thing that is a bit of a sticky point, but it can be used in a browser and kept mostly isolated if desired.
Also, avoiding the games with very invasive anti-cheats. They generally don’t run on Linux anyway, so less of an issue for me, but I don’t like how much low-level access these things have.
Being aware of the potential privacy issues with kernel level anti cheats, I will give up every piece of it as long as I am sure I don’t run into cheaters. Hate me all you want, but a good FPS gaming experience is worth everything to me.
Fair point. If you’re using a dedicated gaming PC vs your general purpose PC you can avoid a lot of the risks too.
Yeah, I get that. Cheaters absolutely ruin competitive FPS games.
In some ways having an isolated OS installed for gaming makes a lot of sense, but you just lose a lot of convenience.