There was a thread here the other day talking about this specific kernel level being “needed” essentially it doesn’t need kernel level because cheaters hack tools also go down to kernel level and if you wanted to cheat these kernel level anti cheats aren’t doing anything to prevent that.

Correct. You can also share the download from one machine to another on your WiFi. And even across your friends(for faster torrent-like download).

You can also use your PC as a cloud host and the frame/machine streams the game off that PC rather than needing all the graphics powered the device itself.

I’m kinda in the same boat. I have an old gaming laptop that just barley didn’t make the win11 arbitrary cut. Not because it was below spec, it was way above. Just because it was too “old”. I installed Bazzite. But I do have a top tier premium gaming PC I built recently that’s still on Win11 with Dualboot with Bazzite.

Bazzite is great, but it still has the failure(maybe it’s not failure to you and me, but the average gamer) is that most stuff isn’t just, download .exe, run that .exe there are loops and frameworks that need to be installed through command lines. The average user will give up there really quickly.

Technically you can with Bazzite.