On March 20th, 2026 MSI released a BIOS update for B650 Tomahawk Wi-Fi motherboard. One of the changes says “Implemented the anti-cheat mechanism.”

I looked around their forums and people seem to agree that it refers to Microsoft Pluton security processor.

Does anybody know what this change is actually about? Is it another initiative by Microsoft to further lock people out of their computers? Would it somehow hinder using Linux with this motherboard?

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Has very intrusive kernel level/bios level anticheat
still has cheaters.
mfw

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tfw millions of dollars of anticheat development is defeated by one PCI-E-boi

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or even better, an adruino that connects your mouse and video output

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The fast object detection aimbots are a pretty good budget option if you’re into that kind of thing.

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