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I’d switch off windows but most of the games I play won’t work on Linux due to “anti cheat”.
Not judging, just curious.
What games are those? In the last 12 months I tried 151 games on Linux. All of them worked, only 6 required tinkering.
The fact they mentioned "anti cheat", it's going to be your modern online multiplayer games. It's going to be games like Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.
@ipkpjersi @v0rld
I would still like to know which and why. Usually there are alternatives out even for those multiplayer games. Example -> all the Valve Games / Blizards Games are good too ;)
Sure, there are alternatives for the games I listed, but if all your friends are playing any of the games I listed, you don't have many options for Linux outside of something like Shadow or GeForce Now, which admittedly is a pretty solid option for online-only games if you live near their servers.
sadly most online mp games have kernel-level anti-cheat that doesn't run on linux
@octoham
i can't agree with this general statement. i guess it's important to understand that a lot of the multiplayer games you wanna currently play have some kind of protection which makes it currently not suitable to run on linux.
just to give a different view mp games which currently seem to work ( checked protondb ):
- Eldenring Nightreign
- Dark and Darker (used to work)
- Helldivers & Helldivers 2
- Arc Raiders
- Counter Strike
- Overwatch
- DOOM in very different versions
- Quake Live
- Hunt Showdown 1896
- Dead by Daylight
- Warframe
with all respect for the games you currently love so much, please don't make general statements.
A personal advice i want to give: Only change to linux if you are also willing to change yourself and adapt. Linux is not Windows like, Mac OS is not Windows , like a Playstation is not a XBOX or a Switch.
i know a lot of the mp games i play have an anti-cheat that doesn't support linux, i'm blaming the AC devs here, not linux.
as for my general statement, i used this handy little website: https://areweanticheatyet.com/
note how i said most mp games w anti-cheat can't run on linux. i think 59% qualifies as 'most'.
i'm rlly not sure why you're so defensive here ngl, i love linux. i use linux on one of my pcs for development, i'm not attacking linux in any way.