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[–] humandotexe@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

Tldr kernel access is bad.

You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?

What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?

How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?