[PrivateButts]

Steam sometimes lets you know with a banner in the store page about a required 3rd party software, but there's also https://areweanticheatyet.com/ maintained by Linux gamers.

What's frustrating to me is that games will run the hyper invasive kernel level version of an anti cheat on Windows but will allow Linux plays, which has no such level of access. If we're trusting Linux players with no kernel level monitoring, why not windows players? Have cheater really not caught on that there's a lower bar on that platform? I hope they don't because I like being able to play competitive games with friends without having to reboot first.

[pynappo]

I think it really is just that some cheaters don't wanna install a different OS, and my understanding is that there are still plenty of hacks on Windows so not much reason to change. Overwatch 2 for example has had a free undetected source-released cheat on Windows for months now (according to what I've heard on Reddit).

I believe Valorant and Roblox have had devs/employees state that supporting Linux isn't worth it for the small proportion of the player base vs the increased cheat risk as well, although feel free to take that with a grain of salt