Comment by quotemstr

What options do gamers have?

1. No games

2. Inscrutable rootkit

3. Piracy

4. Attestation, i.e. partial Tivoization

Of these, #4 seems least awful and maximally user freedom preserving. Unlike regular Tivoization, also, we're not talking about locking down the whole machine. No need. You basically just need to attest the kernel and some binary signing infrastructure. You can run custom builds of whatever else you want otherwise.

I mean, or you can run a trusted VM, as some others have suggested. Is that really any worse?