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I wish I was good enough for competitive gaming. It’s just where my friends hang out - I shouldn’t need a separate machine/boot just to play games with friends

> Or at least put the gaming in an isolated Windows VM with GPU passthrough

That’s a guaranteed ban by most anticheats





> I shouldn’t need a separate machine/boot just to play games with friends

Yet here we are... It's not safe to trust a modern rootkitted Windows gaming setup with sensitive personal stuff and will become less so moving forward.

Your best bet is treating it like a console and do your real computing elsewhere.




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