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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux Gaming: Anti-Cheats question (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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There are games that we cannot play on Linux because of anticheat, which detects wine/proton translation.

How do I tell the company that produces this game that I am interested in playing it on Linux?

The company behind the game I am interested in does not allow any e-mail contact. The only way to contact them is the ticket system. I sent a ticket that I'd like to play it on Linux, but got only a generic response to follow up on news etc.

Maybe if we flooded them with such tickets, they would finally see that it might be worth considering?

What do you think about it?

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This might not be what you wanna hear, but accounting for linux in game dev, especially in online games, comes with added costs. For most companies those added costs do not make financial sense, when the linux demographic is so incredibly small (1.63% on steam: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/ )

[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 4 points 1 year ago

This isn't about "making the game work", or "adding Linux support". This is about toggling a checkbox to stop explicitly preventing Linux from working.

The games that already did never faced a massive cheater problem because of it. The games that have stopped development long ago or "don't care about Linux" (without preventing it with anti cheat) were still made playable by Wine and Proton.

If the developer wants, they can add system info to their ticket system and filter out any Linux tickets. It costs a game developer barely anything to decide to allow Linux users. Linux support costs a lot, but valve, wine, and the community has been putting a lot of effort in so game developers don't have to change anything about their game.