Foxlet

Hi, 86box contributor here!
A few notes about the project that might've been missed in the video:
Serial passthrough is WIP, but has been finally implemented and partially working, with some bugs to iron out 86box already supports mounting any folder as a Virtual ISO directly from the Media menu Support for Linux and macOS (plus native Apple M1/M2 support) is available, particularly handy for ARM64 systems There is a special build of 86box for Linux that supports VFIO, so you can pass through physical sound cards, network cards, hard disks, or classic GPUs over to the emulated PC 😉

Hi, 86box contributor here!
A few notes about the project that might've been missed in the video:
Serial passthrough is WIP, but has been finally implemented and partially working, with some bugs to iron out 86box already supports mounting any folder as a Virtual ISO directly from the Media menu Support for Linux and macOS (plus native Apple M1/M2 support) is available, particularly handy for ARM64 systems There is a special build of 86box for Linux that supports VFIO, so you can pass through physical sound cards, network cards, hard disks, or classic GPUs over to the emulated PC 😉

Hi, 86box contributor here!
A few notes about the project that might've been missed in the video:
Serial passthrough is WIP, but has been finally implemented and partially working, with some bugs to iron out 86box already supports mounting any folder as a Virtual ISO directly from the Media menu Support for Linux and macOS (plus native Apple M1/M2 support) is available, particularly handy for ARM64 systems There is a special build of 86box for Linux that supports VFIO, so you can pass through physical sound cards, network cards, hard disks, or classic GPUs over to the emulated PC 😉

Yes! ISA only remains on industrial motherboards at this point so it's not exactly supported, but PCI cards can be used on a PCIe system using a PCI-to-PCIe riser cable (can be found on sites like eBay or Aliexpress), and of course on special motherboards with PCIe + PCI slots.
 
For example, here's an NVIDIA card passed through to 86box:

Hi, 86box contributor here!
A few notes about the project that might've been missed in the video:
Serial passthrough is WIP, but has been finally implemented and partially working, with some bugs to iron out 86box already supports mounting any folder as a Virtual ISO directly from the Media menu Support for Linux and macOS (plus native Apple M1/M2 support) is available, particularly handy for ARM64 systems There is a special build of 86box for Linux that supports VFIO, so you can pass through physical sound cards, network cards, hard disks, or classic GPUs over to the emulated PC 😉

Background
With the upcoming release of Linux Kernel 5.15, a new filesystem driver is included known as ntfs3. This driver was contributed by Paragon Software based on their commercial efforts, and includes full read/write support as well as NTFS and Unix permissions support. More details can be found in the following:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ntfs3.html
https://www.paragon-software.com/us/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/
 
So what's this about?
Given that the new NTFS driver is now a native part of the kernel, I've decided to (as a proof of concept) add a preliminary kernel (with ntfs3) as well as boot support to a modified version of the Void Linux installer... and it works! Officially no distro supports installing Linux on an NTFS disk out of the box yet, but conceptually it should be possible for users to transition from Windows to Linux without formatting or moving any data by using this method.
 
More information to come soon!

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

Summary
 
After Valve's promises of anti-cheat support in SteamOS, individual vendors are beginning to publish Linux-compatible versions of their anti-cheat solutions, starting with Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat. The latest version of EAC is supported under native Linux as well as through the Proton and Wine compatibility layers, although the process for enabling it is opt-in for each game developer.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
Anti-cheat has historically been one of the major pain points for many gamers trying to switch over to Linux; this essentially removes a blocker that prevented many popular multiplayer games from running on the platform. Given Valve's recent announcement of the Steam Deck being Linux-based, this also opens the path towards 100% game compatibility on their end.
 
Sources
https://www.windowscentral.com/epic-games-makes-easy-anti-cheat-available-linux-paving-way-steam-deck
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck (original press release)

To clarify, the vendor reason is speculation based mainly based on Intel EOLing 7th gen CPUs and related chipsets at the end of 2020, leaving it in extended support, with 8th gen and higher remaining as the only active products in their existing product stack (matching Microsoft's compatibility list).
 
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14968/intel-to-discontinue-nearly-all-desktop-kaby-lake-cpus
 
Certain older motherboards also lack support for Kernel DMA Protection, which is a new requirement for Windows 11, and was introduced around the launch of 8th gen systems.

Microsoft explicitly mentioned that Insider Preview builds would be exempt from needing to meet all the system requirements (this also applies to hypervisors), and users will be required to return to Windows 10 once 11 hits General Availability. In effect this new hard floor is only for the RTM version.
 

Ironically, with an LGA115x cooler (like the Intel Stock cooler). The die guard should protect against chipping the APU.

 

Compatibility with macOS isn't down to generic brands, but more so the particular on-board hardware that exists in a motherboard. Networking, sound, and on-board I/O are all under consideration when picking a model.
 
Outside of that, UEFI compatibility also matters, badly written firmwares will break the boot process from Clover -> XNU either due to memory fragmentation (KASLR fail) or driver issues.

Compatibility with macOS isn't down to generic brands, but more so the particular on-board hardware that exists in a motherboard. Networking, sound, and on-board I/O are all under consideration when picking a model.
 
Outside of that, UEFI compatibility also matters, badly written firmwares will break the boot process from Clover -> XNU either due to memory fragmentation (KASLR fail) or driver issues.

They absolutely can control that, that is the purpose of the SMC, controlling all the hardware sensors, fans, and some power management roles of the machine, alongside firmware properties to manage the clock of the CPU. In previous years it was even possible to control this from userland, using tools like CoolBook.

Zen-platform CPUs have been natively supported solely through Clover patching for a while now, even with overclocks and other exotic modifications.
I'm typing this on such a machine.

He is indeed overselling it. While KVM allows the system platform and CPU to be circumvented (CPUID limitations mainly prevent Ryzen from working under macOS), the GPU will always be limited by the availability of kernel extensions (drivers). In this case, a 1070 will not work properly under any circumstances with Mojave until a new kext is built for it.

Zen-platform CPUs have been natively supported solely through Clover patching for a while now, even with overclocks and other exotic modifications.
I'm typing this on such a machine.

He is indeed overselling it. While KVM allows the system platform and CPU to be circumvented (CPUID limitations mainly prevent Ryzen from working under macOS), the GPU will always be limited by the availability of kernel extensions (drivers). In this case, a 1070 will not work properly under any circumstances with Mojave until a new kext is built for it.