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As you can see in this article, and as it is said in hn all the time, running games on Linux is really easy.

Usually it’s not for multiplayer games. I’m surprised Roblox’s anti-cheat is fine running on Wine since Roblox has been dealing with cheaters (injecting LUA scripts into the client/server, known as level 4/7 exploits) for over a decade.

They mostly solved cheating with good netcode design ala Source Engine

Absolutely none of the problems mentioned in this article have anything to do with Roblox being an online game.

Let’s just say this would have been (and is) a problem for competitive games like Fortnite, Valorant and Apex Legends - at least until Epic releases the Linux Easy Anti Cheat to third party developers https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/game/guides/os/

Linux Easy Anti Cheat already exists. Games like Rust and 7 Days to Die do this fine on Linux.

The issue is those developers aren't releasing a Linux native version of the game that can use the native anti-cheat. And getting a Windows version of anti-cheat working through Wine is harder. Games like Valorant and Apex will never release a Linux native version

Yeah, it's fine for the most part. Of course there are some problems with junk such as recent EA games requiring their completely broken launcher. I just asked for a refund after trying to play Crysis 3.

Games with crazy rootkit anti cheat spyware also don't work. Such as PUBG. Not a big loss, really. StarCraft works, Doom works, Quake, works. Even Cyberpunk works fine with AMD and Nvidia cards.

I am not going back to Windows. Gaming hasn't been an issue for a while. Huge thanks to everyone Took us almost 20 years. Could've been sooner if Linus cared about gaming.

> Could've been sooner if Linus cared about gaming.

This surprises me, so you have any more details about Linus’ impact? I’ve always thought the main barriers were NVIDIA and, lately, Battleye.

I don't think he ever blocked anything of substance that could have helped. What I meant is that he just don't care and never did. As far as I know, of course

There should be a stable kernel interface for drivers. The developers of Linux have always been against the idea.

So easy that it is newsworthy.

It's kinda funny that people can't read the sarcasm in this.

(I hope it's sarcasm).

I believe they did read the sarcasm, and that’s why they downvoted probably..

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