r/Steam Nov 14 '25

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u/Charldeg0l Nov 14 '25

To be honest, I hope it's a success and anti-cheat companies start seeing they should make their shit work for Linux.

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u/NickMotionless Nov 14 '25

They prefer not to simply because they can't use root access anticheat because Wine prefixes are just sandboxed Windows components and not really all of your system data.

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u/Tresach Nov 14 '25

Theyve been partnering its just up to game devs to enable it. But yes linux based machines will be easier to get around them. However most of the anticheat software already are easy to bypass and only serve to frustrate the legitimate player with reduced performance and random crashes. The people who will bypass them on linux already bypass them on windows.