Kernel-level anti cheat is spyware, say it with me everybody. Complain on steam about it. Post this nonstop. This standard is NOT OK and needs to change and that's the only way it might.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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Why complain on Steam? If I remember correctly, League of Legends is downloaded through its own installer and it's completely separate to Steam
It used to be on Steam
I installed Fortnite to check out the LEGO mode without realizing EAC was a rootkit and the next Windows update bricked my PC.
Wow, who could have anticipated that kernel-level anti-cheat was a bad idea? It's like people haven't been warning that giving an increasing number of programs that level of access might be a Bad Idea.
I would never let some random anticheat code have kernel access. Games are demanding something crazy, and users are stupidly letting them get it.
It's not just silently installed by Steam, or something, they have to explicitly confirm they accept it? I don't play this game, I am curious if players are unaware or actively stupid.
Yes
One of my favourite games to have kernel level anticheat is Helldivers 2, and I think it's definitely caused a few issues for me.
Helldivers 2 works on Linux even with the anti cheat unlike Valorant so there must be some differences there.
Riot's Vanguard is the only one that needs to start with boot, and always run in the background. Others can initialize and close when the game is done, IIRC. Which is why they can work with proton/wine.
Vanguard is always running? More reason for me to never go back to League I guess.
The first time I installed Vanguard, for the Valorant beta, it decided to disable my mouse and keyboard on each boot.
just play other mobas
Even ones like easy anticheat have given me problems where if a game didn't exit properly my whole system got bogged down and required a restart.
Others simply dubbed it “malware” and declared they would be quitting League until the program stopped breaking PCs.
Silly that malware is okay once it stops interfering with your day to day
This is either the final nail on the coffin for playing league on linux or it will motivate linux devs to figure out a way around it. I don’t play league but I did enjoy playing TFT with friends always on Linux.