They won’t or can’t get their anti-cheat/DRM in as a kernel module. Would you trust that bunch of fucks to not screw something up terribly by trying to pop in something like that?
It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.
It’s basically a rootkit.
Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”