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0 pointsrekoil2mo ago0 comments

All the damn developers keep turning off online play for Linux users though... I play two games a lot currently, Apex Legends and Battlefield 6, both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux.

Apex Legends at least was running fine on Steam Deck prior to november 2024 when they instituted this change, and I can tell you from personal experience it had very little impact on cheaters, which was their excuse for the change (supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients).

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newdee2mo ago

> supposedly most cheaters were connecting via Linux clients

I always find this so hard to believe, mainly because the majority of players are on Windows, which means that the market for cheats is there and statistically most likely to happen there.

I just don’t play games by devs that snub Linux. There are many to choose from.

quadruple2mo ago

The thing with Linux cheats is that they were significantly easier to make(you didn't have to think about bypassing the anticheat at all, you could just read the game's memory or LD_PRELOAD your cheat in), and a lot more were publicly available(in true FOSS fashion, a lot of Linux cheats were open-source). A cheat that could cost $30-$60 a month on Windows could be free as in freedom(and free beer) on Linux.

fragmede2mo ago

But the anti-cheat technology on Windows is more through, so it's harder to cheat on Windows.

happymellon2mo ago

If the number of cheaters hasn't changed, but Linux users are now blocked, then your premise is flawed.

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