[jsheard]

The two biggest anti-cheat providers (EasyAntiCheat and Battleye) are on board, both can run natively on Linux or in Proton. The problem is that neither solution is anywhere near as robust as they are on Windows, so Linux support is offered on an opt-in basis and not all developers have chosen to opt-in.

Apex Legends did opt-in to EACs Linux support and the effect has been that nearly every cheat for that game now targets Linux, because it is so much easier to avoid being detected on there. I would be fascinated to know the ratio of actual genuine Linux users playing Apex versus those who just dual boot into Linux to cheat with impunity.

[machomaster]

> Apex Legends did opt-in to EACs Linux support and the effect has been that nearly every cheat for that game now targets Linux, because it is so much easier to avoid being detected on there.

Source for that?

It makes no sense.

1. Cheating in Apex has been rampant for many years, way before the game started to work on Linux.

2. I have not heard that cheating would increase lately, especially linked to Linux.

3. A lot of cheating is being done by Chinese players. It sounds incredible (I literally don't believe) that those pesky cheaters would bother and would even be able to start using Linux on their home computers and in game dungeons.

[jsheard]

> Source for that?

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/apex-legends/

Paid/private cheats are hard to keep track of but the free/open-source cheats are nearly all for Linux at this point, aside from the crude macro-based "cheats" which use AutoHotkey or similar. Apex enabled Linux support over two years ago so I wouldn't expect it to cause a recent uptick in cheating, it's been table stakes for a while.

[machomaster]

Apex was released in the beginning of 2019, 5.5 years ago. It started to work on Linux over 3 years later.

You can easily find articles/videos from those pre-Linux days that talk about rampant cheating. Since Linux got introduced I have not seen any drastic changes to the worse, if anything it subjectively became better.

[j_maffe]

What does being Chinese have anything to do with the ability to set up Linux?

[machomaster]

There are different cultural/gaming/technological/behavioral reasons. I will only mention one: the culture of gaming cafes; and you won't be installing Linux on those paid machines all of the sudden.