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Kernel Level Anti-Cheat is a security risk on Windows, plain and simple. It basically bypasses nearly anti-virus and gives game devs access to any and every part of the system. Bugs could lead to unfettered and persistent access for malware.
Additionally, it doesn't work out of the box on Linux in wine (wine isn't a windows kernel running on linux, so it most likely can't work).
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This is why especially Chinese publishers love it. Why bother hacking someone when the user will just voluntarily install a backdoor past all their security?
I'm sure it's irrelevant for desktops. But Valve wants to push linux and publishers came up with the stupid excuse and disabled support by 1 mouse click. But now Valve has the steam deck with steamOS. So a platform can be provided for publishers. So yea its a good thing from valve telling publisher "fck ya for disabling Linux support"