Windows 8 Compatibility

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UAC isn't really needed if you use common sense and don't browse unsafe pages or install cracked software. Besides, there are ways to avoid it and turn UAC off silently, unless they fixed it.

The issue with FFXIV crashing by losing focus is lazy coding, since the error message thrown is a default one when you don't handle the "device lost" exception.

Before someone says it's not possible with our current engine, it is, the very first windower for xiv managed giving ffxiv exclusive mode fullscreen (not borderless window as the later ones do and yes, there is a difference) via wrapping itself around ffxiv and handling this exception.

If a hack can provide the functionality without having access to the source code, but the devs can't then something is fishy.

problem with linux they would have to give out source code if they made any changes to things under the GPL, so they would have to give up there secrets. thats why they only stick to apple & MS

That isn't true. You are not forced to release the source code for a program, why do you think there are open source nvidia drivers and binary nvidia drivers?
SE could just provide a pre-compiled binary with an install script.

The real reason why no one bothers with linux is because the market share is too small to warrant support for it.