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Can enabling Linux support on anti-cheats such as EAC or Battleye create more cheaters in competitive games? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 11 months ago by helpmyusernamewontfi to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Recently a game called "The Finals" has released and after their beta was over they stopped supporting Linux, and a lot of people are clearly pissed and have sparked a ton of debates within their Discord server but I constantly and constantly see an argument brought up by Windows users in the community saying that they dont want Linux support and argue that enabling Linux support is only going to add more cheaters into the game. (as its a pretty big problem right now even though they're using EAC.)

I don't believe it, I haven't seen any proof of it, but I wanted to ask you guys what your thoughts are on it. And, if you have some sort of source proving whether or not this is the case, please do share.

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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

It theoretically could, as the Linux version of these anticheats run in userspace. We really can't say for sure, only someone with knowledge of the internals of EAC/BattleEye could tell us if the Linux anticheats are less capable.

The Finals is so comically easy to cheat in that there would be no point for someone to switch to Linux just to cheat. Especially true when you take into consideration the facts that there aren't many (if any) cheats for this game on Linux, and most cheat developers only have experience developing for Windows. These devs have years of knowledge on hiding cheats in Windows, and none for Linux.