Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

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    I think what you meant to write is “online games with anticheat are the worst thing”.

    Because “online anticheat” is becoming a thing wherein the anticheat system is run on a remote server and not your local system. Not only does it not need to install malware on your local system, but it does a better job at catching cheaters.

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      Yup, and it’s a fantastic option. AFAIK, that’s what Valve uses for CS:GO, and while it’s not perfect, it isn’t intrusive and largely does its job.

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      I could be wrong but I believe most games (e.g: Fairfight in all EA games) do have a server-side anti-cheats, just not very effective ones because they like for EAC/BE to do most of the work.

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    Sometimes you have to choose between what is convenient and what is right, and sometimes that means giving things up. But not everyone is willing or able to do that. It’s fine, do what you feel you need to.

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      This. Use whatever is best for you and sometimes that just isn’t Linux. We don’t win people over by trying to force anything :)

      Hopefully this issue will continue to get better over time, which it is slowly.

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    Same here. I’ve only a Linux machine for over a decade but I had to go out and buy Windows just so I could play on FaceIT. I’m praying that cs2 supports Linux and the MM experience is good enough to make FaceIT obsolete.

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    NVMe drives have become to inexpensive recently I just bit the bullet and dual-boot windows from it’s own drive. Takes less than ten seconds to switch.

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      Just make sure you physically disconnect all other storage devices while installing windows. The windows boot loader seems to make itself comfy on any drive it can find.

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    I just refuse to buy any games with client side anti cheat. It’s just too much of a security and privacy risk to have those rootkits on my computers.

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    Don’t be so spineless.

    Plenty of games work without anti cheat on Linux and I only play them.

    You just buckled under the tiniest amount of pressure, but you would have to pry Linux out of my cold dead hands.

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      Not sure why there are so many downvotes. Are there really that many people in here of all places who think gaming is just triple-A games from companies that don’t respect their players and nothing else?

      Edit: wording

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        It’s actually pretty hard to fuck up your game that much that it doesn’t work on Linux.

        Many anti cheat even work under proton.

        So yeah, just don’t fucking buy shit games.

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          Those anti cheat games usually need to opt in to supporting Proton/WINE. For Easy Anti Cheat (perhaps the biggest one out there), devs just need to tick a build option to support it, but then they feel obligated to do QA for it, so the option stays off until the higher ups decide to formally support that configuration.

          So it’s not that it’s hard to mess it up, it’s just hard to convince higher ups to allow their game to work on Linux.

          If a AAA MP game doesn’t work on Linux, it’s probably intentional.

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        I don’t like it because that’s the kind of elitist attitude that turns away new people from checking out Linux gaming. Imagine that as a response to “Hey I play these games and am interested in Linux”. You’re going to tell them: “switch to Linux and give up those games and if you don’t you’re not committed enough”?

        It’s gatekeeping “console-wars” fanboy mentality. Like a Linux Playstation fan attacking someone for playing an Windows Xbox Exclusive. As if that’s supposed to be their whole identity, and not just a way to play video games.

        There’s nothing wrong with having multiple consoles; there’s nothing wrong with dual-booting.

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          In my experience, most Windows-exclusive games work just fine under Wine. It’s not that big a deal.

          This thread isn’t even about Windows games per se, but about a few games whose anti-cheats are screwing over Linux users.

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      I could stop playing these games right now. As i said i’m don’t use my computer for gaming that much. I could be perfectly satisfied with only minecraft. But i play them with the homies and i can’t let them down

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        I don’t think I would consider “games with anti cheat” to be “every pleasure in life”. We’re spoiled for choice in games. I can increasingly narrow the scope of what I’m willing to support with my money every year and still not run out of great games to play.

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          I figured the “open source gods” line would have given away that I was being hyperbolic.

          We’re talking about online multiplayer games. Unless all of your friends are in the same camp as you, have fun playing not playing with them.

          DRM, especially the always online kind, is shit. I get that and I agree. But to act like OP is weak for wanting to play the games that have it is EXACTLY the dismissive shit that turns people away from the FOSS community. It’s gross and I hate it, get off your high horse (not you in particular) and have a real conversation with a person who comes with an earnest question, don’t tell them they “buckled”

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            have fun not playing with them

            I absolutely do.

            I’m personally not interested in MP anyway, but I will occasionally play if there’s a Linux compatible game on offer, but I’ll probably burn out after a few sessions anyway. For example, I used to play L4D and similar co-op games with friends, but I got bored after finishing the campaign, so I bailed when they were still playing together.

            There are plenty of MP games out there that work on Linux, and I’ve played several of them with friends. The big MP games just don’t interest me.

            So it’s less “stand up for Linux” and more “stand up for yourself.” If you don’t like a game your friends like, for whatever reason, feel free to just not play it. I recommend suggesting something else that does interest you. We got into a rut and it turned out my friends didn’t really like the games we were playing anyway, so recommending something else really spiced up our gaming time. Try it out and see what works.

            But if you really want to play something, I don’t see a problem with firing up Windows from time to time. I have it installed on my system as well, I just haven’t used it in a year or two, but it’s there if I need it.

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              You’re not the one with the attitude I take issue with. You didn’t call OP spineless for wanting to play games that only work on Windows.

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                Sure, and I’m not arguing with you, merely giving a perspective that perhaps going with the group doesn’t always get you what you want. If you value using a given OS more than playing a certain set of games with friends, that’s an absolutely fine take. There are lots of options between the extremes of “don’t play MP games at all” and “only use Windows for gaming.”

                If you don’t want to play a specific game for some reason, don’t play that game, even if all of your friends try to force you to.

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            Unless all of your friends are in the same camp as you, have fun playing not playing with them.

            You won’t play everything with your friends, but you probably don’t have a 100% overlap in interest in which games you play anyway. Plus, a friendly suggestion goes a long way. “Hey, want to play Quake now that it just got remastered?” or “I just found this game X, and it’s on sale. It’s kind of like Y but with Z. Want to check it out with me?” And yes, I knew you were being hyperbolic, but I think you were serious when you were saying you were denying yourself some pleasure rather than sticking to some principle. And the value of that principle is going to vary from person to person, so I also agree with you on the “buckling”, but there’s just so much to play out there that one criterion is unlikely to be a deal-breaker given the breadth of games available.

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              I mean you’re basically saying “it’s different for everyone so do what you want” which is very different than calling OP spineless for wanting to play games that don’t work on Linux. I’m not arguing that the best games require Windows or that nothing else is worth playing - I’m saying it’s arrogant and idiotic to insult someone over wanting to play.

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      Fall guys fortnite and apex (judge me if you want but my broke firend don’t wanna try anything else)

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        I can confirm that both apex and fallguys are working just fine on Linux. Fortnite on the other hand does not.

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        I’m not judging, as I said I was curious. I get it though, Apex just had a Linux ban wave, Fortnite well, it’s owned by Epic and Fall Guys to my knowledge requires editing AC files so Windows in your case is more convenient

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          Sorry if i sounded a little rude. It’s just that most of the time people think i’m 6y/o just because i play fortnite and it got quite annoying

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        With the exception of the false positive ban wave reported a few days ago, Apex Legends has played flawlessly on Linux for the last couple of years. According to comments on protondb, Fall Guys also appears to be working fine, including multiplayer with anti-cheat. I’m not trying to tell you that you shouldn’t run Windows if you want to, but perhaps you didn’t fully explore all options?

        If you switch back to Linux you could suggest Shatterline to your broke friends. It’s f2p and had no issues with anti-cheat last time I tried it. I think Overwatch 2 is also f2p.

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          I tried playing fall guys back in the days but it needed a few tweaks and it just didn’t work. Maybe it has changed so idk. Also thanks for your suggestions i’ll try them and see if i can switch back to nixos

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    There’s unfortunately not much to do.

    Linux is inherently less “secure” to developers. They have to sacrifice anti-chest efficiency to enable them on Linux, which is a tradeoff most aren’t willing to make.

    Most every game I play requires me to stay on windows. I don’t really get any enjoyment out of single player games anymore. So windows stays as the primary OS and that’s likely never going to change.

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      But it’s not. Easy anti-cheat, for example, works on Linux. The problem isn’t with Linux, it’s that developers don’t target Linux, so their anti-cheat systems don’t work on Linux.

      And that’s fine with me, though it would help Linux adoption if those games worked on Linux. But it’s not an inherent limitation of Linux, it’s just something devs need to proactively support.

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        Correction, EAC barely works on linux. Apex is just safer because Respawn themselves are putting in some effort.

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          Well yeah, you can’t expect a third-party anti-cheat to solve all of your problems, each game is going to have idiosyncrasies.

          I think Valve’s Overwatch system is a fantastic example of ways to innovate without compromising a user’s security or requiring platform-specific cheat detection. It’s probably not enough on its own (those reviewers need data), but to me it’s preferable to something more invasive like BattleEye. A lot of that can be done server-side, by running player movements through an AI model that detects players that fit certain patterns, or don’t fit common patterns.

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        So EAC works, but it works at a different level than it does on windows. EAC does become less secure on both platforms when Linux support is enabled from my understanding. BattleEye, Vanguard and Riots AC don’t work on Linux either, which is a significant portion of major games right now.

        I’d argue it is an inherent limitation of Linux, as it’s so open that it’s harder to validate a user isn’t using 3rd party programs to cheat.

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          I think it’s an inherent limitation of client-side anticheat.

          I think initiatives like Valve’s Overwatch system is a much better approach because it relies on players who have a stake in eliminating cheaters instead of a constant war against whatever flavor of the week cheating engine people are using. Pair that with an AI model that looks for patterns (both whether players fit cheating patterns or don’t fit expected patterns) and player-jurors will have enough information to make a call.

          But that kind of initiative takes more effort than just integrating an off-the-shelf anti-cheat system, it forces companies to actually care about how their game runs on customer machines.

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            Personally I find Overwatch a horrible idea. It’s not terribly effective and relies on players, who are particularly unreliable at determining if someone is cheating. I believe those decisions should be entirely out of the hands of the players.

            AI is still to expensive to run checks on every action that every player makes. Also any sort of automated system can’t be clearly banning people.

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              It doesn’t need to be realtime, as long as the cheaters get caught after some days. So take samples from every player and run them through a learning algorithm and take more samples the more suspicious someone is.

              The more important thing is how you deal with cheaters once you find them. I really like the idea of increasing lag to cheaters instead of outright banning them so you waste their time more than anything. And then if you find out they’re not cheating, it’s easy to just drop them from the pool.

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      So don’t get into those games in the first place. There are so many games available. You will never exhaust them all.

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        I primarily play competitive fps games. They’re more or less the only genre of gaming that’s any kind of fun anymore imo.

        I don’t enjoy single player games. I own literally thousands of dollars of indie/AA single player games that I don’t enjoy, so I’ve stopped buying new ones. I’m simply not interested in non-competitive games. They’re not fun and I’d rather not play them.

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          Personally I don’t really enjoy multiplayer games much because they are all so stale nowadays.

          I guess I grew up with dedicated servers, map editors, and mods coming out all the time but most of the modern ones are so fixed on DLC and battlepasses.

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          You’re essentially the opposite from me. I keep trying MP and it just doesn’t click for me. I played Rocket League a bit with friends, but after 20-30 hours, I got tired of it and didn’t pick it up again. I used to love FPS MP, but it just feels so repetitive these days. I’ve tried MP strategy games, and it’s just the same repetitive thing. It becomes more about flawless performance of the same task and less about experiencing something new.

          I love SP games with good story, unique gameplay, or immersive atmosphere. There’s just so much variety in the AA and indie space that there’s always something new to experience.

          I haven’t played any of the recent big MP games, and I’m much more satisfied as a gamer than I was when i played them.

          I guess I don’t see the appeal anymore. But then the are people who are the exact opposite and see the appeal of SP gaming. And I think that’s interesting.

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            Repetitive is honestly what I like about them. I don’t need to think about a story, don’t need to follow any path and don’t need to think. New experiences mean paying attention to a story I really don’t care about or mechanics that aren’t really mechanically complicated, just puzzles.

            I play games to turn off my brain and do better at something. Chasing that flawless performance is what makes the games fun for me. I’ve played nearly 4000 hours of Apex Legends in the last 5 years. (Granted a majority was during the pandemic where I was playing every day for 6-12 hours) and continue to play, even though it’s getting a little stale.

            To be honest I don’t care about story in 75% of the movies I watch either. So I think it’s just a personality trait. And also probably the super sever ADHD

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              Interesting, because that’s pretty much exactly the opposite of why I play games.

              When I want to get good at something, I go to work. My job is pretty repetitive, but there’s a ton of room for improving my skillsets, and periodically there are new challenges. If that’s not cutting it, I’ll exercise. But playing the same game over and over feels really bad to me, so I just don’t do it. The only two games I have >100 hours recorded in are Europa Universalis IV and Cities Skylines, the first is because I really like playing different countries (I have >800 hours) and the second is because I like trying different city structures. Even then, after a campaign, I need a few weeks or even months before I play again. I get bored in RPGs when I get too OP, though I’ll stick around if the story is interesting.

              So I’m always looking for a new experience, hence why I play so many indie games.

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                Fair. Everyone games for different reasons.

                I’m a developer, so my day-to-day work is very much “new” every week. When I go home I definitely want something repetitive and easy. I’ve never had a problem doing repetitive tasks in gaming. I played exclusively modded minecraft for 6 years, so this is nothing new to me.

                I honestly think the last Single Player game I completed was Bioshock Infinite when it released. (And Doom Eternal I think) Most of the time when a game is released and I buy it I’ll get 5-10 hours in and get supremely bored of the mechanics.

                I’m getting home and explicitly not looking for new experiences, so I definitely see where we’re different there.

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                  I’m a developer too, so I guess just different strokes for different folks.

                  I really like developing software, so half the time I’ll work on a personal project or something when I get home (work is team lead for Python and TypeScript, hobbies are Rust or Godot), and the rest I’ll split between reading/writing books and playing video games. I lose interest in projects, books, and games easily, so I tend to be constantly looking for something new.

                  Different strokes I guess. I’m quite introverted, so it’s more draining for me to play MP than a complex puzzle game or a “git gud” game like Dark Souls.