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Most could, but most are also designed not to because adding a virtualization type of layer allows for ways to circumvent it. Anticheat needs to trust the environment it is running in so it can rely on the information. Wine is designed to replicate things it trusts in Windows, but not actually necessarily replicate the way the kernel actually does those things, so the things they are relying on might not mean the same thing as the do in Windows. So they’d need to analyze and possibly implement things a bit differently. This takes time and money and for companies like this, the customer isn’t the user, so they have little reason to cater to users needs. Pro gaming and a few online game companies are their primary customers and they generally don’t want to support Linux anyway.

Usually it uses your IP address first, bit it’s not the only information in cases where the IP address is a known VPN or similar. Are you saying you were tunneling over TOR the first time?

When you switched to VPN you didn’t mention what browser. If it’s one that supports advertising IDs, that could be used, for example.

And when you connected to copilot did you get a captcha popup? If so, did you have to actually solve a captcha or click a button? If not, then it likely is getting information from somewhere that you are trustworthy.

Clear all browser data, make sure enhanced tracking protection is not disabled for the site. Go to a site that tells your IP address and verify it’s the Tor endpoint to verify the setup there is correct. Then try again.

Also, assuming you’re not clicking through any popups to allow tracking info or logging in to any accounts on this browser beforehand. If you log into a Microsoft account or any other account for a site that Microsoft gets info from first, it can use those logins to track you. You can disable this in the browser, but so many sites will break without it.

Nope it doesn’t add anything for me. The _netdev option tells mount to wait until the network is connected before attempting to mount. And the nofail option tells it not to error or block the process that called it if the mount doesn’t work or is delayed.

Now if the mount contains your etc or other critical config files, it could cause problems and maybe you want to wait, so don’t want the nofail. And of course this kind of thing is somewhat OS specific depending on what boot system and service manager, etc., is used, so YMMV, but on Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu, it has worked for me for many years.

But it’s “just business”. You can’t blame them. That’s the get out of jail free card, often literally.

/s

Try adding the nofail and _netdev options in your fstab entry. I have this on a few computers that connect to nfs shares including my laptop that obviously can only connect when I’m at home or on VPN. Example:

server:/path /mnt/path nfs4 defaults,nofail,_netdev 0 0

I use Arthurian legend related stuff. Servers and desktops are locations. My portable devices are the names of swords. IoT devices are more explicitly descriptive since I won’t need to type in, but it’s more important to recognize them when I see them, like lightswitch-livingroom.