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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•2 months agoYikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoTldr kernel access is bad. You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly? What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that? How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?
Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
Tldr kernel access is bad.
You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?
What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?
How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?