> but you're ruining the experience of others when hacking in multiplayer games
What I meant was, cheating can be a good learning experience to programming for a lot of kids, because they get immediate feedback and rewards. At least that's what I see it as.
I'm with you, but the environment they cheat in matters. Learning to hack with CTFs is great, but against real targets? Of course, I'm overplaying the severity of cheating a bit, but the point still stands.
By breaking the agreed-upon rules you gain resources and others lose resources (energy, morale, money, w/e). That the activity impacts the cheater in other ways is beside the point if its a dick move or not.
Unfortunately it's not possible on Linux, at least not natively. I've been there before and dual-boot windows out of exactly that reason.
You can, however, use GPU passthrough and a Windows virtual machine. Another method is by using an Android emulator, though that has significant performance and QOL sacrifices attached to it.
It sounded like the VM was a little more finicky than I'm used to so I was trying not to go there, but I'm not super worried about performance. Its for my kids and the computer is decent. Maybe I'll just remove this computer from the family rotation and call it a day. We got plenty of other devices they can game on, including a laptop that dual-boots macOS and windows. I stay out of that windows install entirely, so who knows what junk has accumulated at this point.
VMs are easier than ever now and those simple games like won't be upset they are running in a VM. Bonus is you can have snapshots and always restore to a working state no matter what the kids do to it.
I had a link I wanted to give you, one of the privacy distros had a whole guide on hiding the fact that programs were running in a vm from programs, but I can't find it right now. If I find it I'll post it again.
Otherwise this[0] link might be useful. Completely agree about it shouldn't being necessary and would be nice if it wasn't.
Edit: Actually, I found some more links, these are what I have saved as soon I want to attempt making a Windows VM that doesn't know it's a VM. I hope these help:
It's still comparatively very simple compared to stuff like CoD. Qemu has made an advancement on being able to hide that you are in a vm. Byfron is likely only targeted at Parallels, hyperv and vmware. If you try it with qemu and follow the steps to make the vm undetectable as a vm it will probably work fine.
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