Linux Anti-Cheat in 2026 | Things Are Improving! But Which Ones Actually Work?"

While Linux gaming and Linux desktop continue to grow when it comes to new users coming over from Windows uh and lots of people enjoying their time when it comes to playing games on Linux. One of the thorns in uh Linux's back I would say when it comes to gaming is the anti-che side of gaming on Linux. Uh and we are going to go over basically every single anti-che that is on uh every single game that has released uh and seeing the compatibility with these anti-cheets if they work on Linux or not and then explaining as to uh why some games block Linux on purpose uh and [snorts] then some don't. So the first two anti-cheets we're going to talk about is easy anti-che or EAC and battle antiche. Uh these two anticheets do support Linux under user space not kernel space like on Windows. And this will be a common theme as we go through all of the anti-cheets that do support Linux because uh when it comes to anti-che on Linux, uh a lot of game studios don't like the fact usually they use an excuse uh that uh Linux being open source uh is a bigger vector or chance of cheaters getting away with cheating uh and able to create cheap cheats more frequently uh at the expense that they can't keep up. But I would say we'd have to disagree with that. Uh, Linux being open- source means that more people get to look at the code and that means more people get to contribute to it. That meaning the anti-che will be able to be more secure when it comes to combating against all of these types of cheats that get created. But the next one is NEAC Protect. Uh this is used on uh as we see here Frag Punk in Marvel Rivals in Naraka uh Naraka they say Bladeoint uh which is a um Chinese battle royale melee uh game. I'm pretty sure uh this antiche does work on Linux and I'm pretty sure it also does run in user space. And the same goes with uh Valve's anti-che vac. Uh, this also does run in user space. Even though it does have native games that use the VAC anti-che, it does not load into the kernel at all. Uh, only user space. Now, the next anti-che is EA Javelin anti-che. EA's anti-che basically. Uh, this anti-che does not support Linux. It runs in the kernel space on Windows and they have no plans as of yet uh to support this anti-che on Linux which they would have to support it in user space. Um I don't know if they're ever going to do that. Uh when it came to Apex Legends uh that was using uh EAC and it still uses EAC today, but EA kind of like put their foot down and just started blocking Linux left, right, and center when it comes to their games. So games like Battlefield 1, uh Battlefield uh 5, those games worked perfectly fine on Linux because they were using a different anti-che that was supporting Linux in user space and then they switched it to the EA anti-che. And now, as you can see, it is broken because of that anti-che. And they even uh came up with their own error that appears saying basically um go f yourself. Uh you can't use you can't play the game on Linux. either it be Steam Deck or it be Proton or it be Linux desktop in general. Um any of those solutions that they list there um they just say nope go away install Windows if you want to play our games. The next one is Ricochet if that's how you say it. Uh that this is the Call of Duty uh anti-che. This also does run in kernel space and so it is not supported uh on Linux. Uh so any of the new Call of Duties that you want to play that is not going to happen. And same goes with uh the Vanguard anti-heet. This also does run in the kernel uh at the point where it literally is the like one of the first things that loads on your computer if you're on Windows uh cuz they try to catch some of the DMA cheating that that is currently happening uh with with cheating in gaming. Uh any of these games you want to play, Valerant, League of Legends, Team Fight Tactics, none of them are going to work on Linux sadly. Uh League of Legends used to work on Linux a couple years ago before because they didn't use Vanguard in it. Uh and even to the point where Riot Games was helping a little bit uh with keeping compatibility. At one point it did actually break for quite a long time until uh Glorious Egg Roll and a bunch of other contributors were able to figure out how to get around it so then people could play. But then they introduced Vanguard and you were no longer able to play the game, which is very uh disappointing for people that want to play League of Legends on Linux. Well, you can't do it anymore and you haven't been able to do it for like or close to 2 years now. So, it is a rip and it is surprising because uh League of Legends is supported on Mac. Uh and the thing is Mac has a lower percentage when it comes to actual gamers versus Linux on the Steam hardware survey. That doesn't mean that um the other people who aren't using Steam are playing games on a Mac. Um but based off that stat alone, uh there is more Linux gamers that would benefit from this, you know, these games like League of Legends uh being supported on Linux or something like Valerant or Team Fight Tactics. Even though a lot of uh Linux uh players like to say uh that this is a feature that you're not able to play these games because they're toxic. uh which I do agree uh that you know League of Legends and Valerant I have played them and they are very uh toxic inducing games. So it is quite it's kind of like therapy when you move to Linux because you're you're being forced uh to not play those games because you simply can't. Then we also do have anti-che expert or ACCE uh which is one of the uh Chinese or just Asian uh anti-cheats and this anti-che uh does not support Linux fully. It only supports the steam deck basically uh or steam OS. So, if you use, you know, the Steam Deck or Steam OS or the Steam use like the Steam Machine, uh, or maybe even the Steam Frame, uh, you would be able to play some of the games that do support Linux in some capacity. Uh, which is really stupid that they only support Steam Deck/Steam OS only. I don't really know the reason why there would be any difference between someone wanting to cheat on Steam OS versus someone someone that wanted to cheat on um just a normal Linux droid because there's not much difference only that one is uh atomic/mutable and the other one is not. Then the other one is uh Punkbuster. Uh this is a pretty old anti-che that isn't used anymore. It has supported Linux uh for quite long time now. Uh, and it runs in user space, so that's why it's basically been able to be supported. And this is what was used in Battlefield 1 and I'm pretty sure Battlefield 5 before EA implemented their anti- kernel level anti-che. But as we can see here, uh, one of the two games that do work on Linux, uh, Battlefield 3 being actually a bit annoying to set up. You actually have to spoof your browser to be Windows if you want to join um, the servers that are running on Battlefield 3. really weird. Uh, and in Battlefield 4, I have played this uh, game many times, but it does say that you have to manually update it uh, if you want to be able to find um, and play different matches online. Uh, even though I've played it many times in a server browser and I haven't had any major problems. I haven't been kicked or banned. So, um, but if you, yeah, if you want to play Battlefield 4, you do have to update, um, the Punkbuster antiche manually, which there is a tutorial on, uh, gaming on Linux if you want to update it. Then we have, uh, Mi Hoyu, uh, protect anti-che. This, uh, does indeed work, uh, on Linux. And the weird thing about this anti-che uh or really Genchin Impact, which is the antiche that is used on that game, uh originally Genchin Impact, uh was really weird with Linux support uh in the beginning and had to use like workarounds which could get you banned and there was people that were banned for using those workarounds. Uh but in the future, like a year later, uh Genchin Impact did enable Proton support with their anti-che, but they never actually publicly stated that they supported Linux in any fashion uh under Proton. Uh so it's really weird. Uh like what the note says here, the developers never express support, but it has worked for a long time, which is true. It's worked for like over like what close to a year and a half now or two years. Uh, and the studio has never said that they've supported uh, you know, the game under Proton, but there you don't need any workarounds to play this game anymore. You can just use normal Proton. And I haven't heard anyone get banned when playing Genjin Impact under Proton. In the past [snorts] like 2 years, uh, basically since the workarounds, uh, there's been no bans. So, you should be able to play Genjin Impact on this cheap with no problems. Then the next one is the warden anti-che. This also does work on Linux through user space and uh Overwatch 2 is the one that uh uses it. And the good thing is that Blizzard um for a long time now, basically since the release of Overwatch 2 have been very friendly towards Linux and uh basically when Wine and DXVK or even before DXVK, you were able to play Overwatch 2. the Blizzard uh studio who, you know, the Overwatch 2 team, they had no real gripes about supporting Linux. Uh, and it's maybe because they're pretty good at banning cheaters, I would say, in the time that I've played Overwatch 2. I haven't really faced many cheaters uh at Blizzard, and it's probably because they're really good at doing that. Now, probably some people in the comments will probably say that there have they have met cheaters before, and I bet people have. Um, but when it comes to the Warden anti-che, if you're wondering if you want to play Overwatch 2 on Linux, you 100% can. Now, when it comes to uh Nexon game security antiche, uh, this anti-che does seem to work on Linux through user space. Uh, but as we can see here, two different games. One is working through Proton, which is Blue Archive, but then Maple Story is broken. Uh so that's another case that I'll bring up soon about how you know different game studios designed to uh block or enable Linux support through Proton. Then we also have the Triarch anti-che. This hasn't really been used uh for a while. Uh but this uh should be changed on this list. Uh Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. This game actually does work on Linux. Now, on the last Proton experimental uh release that just happened, uh you can now actually join online matches. There is some problems with graphics uh related things on AMD cards and I'm pretty sure some crashes that occur on majority of different hardware. Um so, it's in progress when it comes to the games like stability and compatibility. But when it comes to the anti-che side of things, uh you now can play the game and you will not get uh false band like before. because before when you tried to um install Cold War, you were able to launch the game, but you would be instantly banned. Um so really good that that isn't the case anymore. And it's really disappointing uh for the people that uh you know tried to play it and now they've been false banned and their ban won't be removed I've heard. So that's pretty um sad to hear from you know Activision not unbanning them. Then we can see here uh Call of Duty Black Ops 3. This also does indeed work on Linux through the Treyarch anti-che. Uh but the thing with Black Ops 3 is that if you try to play online matches, it is a security risk. Now if you try to play on those servers because of the peer-to-peer um situation that is done on Black Ops 3, people can literally hack your uh Black Ops 3 account uh and inject all types of different things into it. So, I'd highly recommend not playing uh Black Ops 3 uh when it comes to the multiplayer side, unless you're playing with friends, you want to do private matches, or you want to play Call of Duty, Black Ops 3 zombies, which is like the goat in my opinion, uh or Black Ops Cold War as well, zombies, that's pretty awesome. Uh you should be able to do that now with, you know, no problems in Black Ops 3. It's been supported on Linux for like basically since I started um installing Linux and playing games on it, it's been supported back then. So it's been supported for like three or four years now. Um so that's really good. Then we also do have N protect game guard. Uh this anti-che is used on Hell Divers 2 and it does indeed work on Linux to re user space. Uh but as we can see here there is two games that are broken because again as I'll mention in later in the video uh many game studios like to not enable support which is really annoying. But if you do want to play Hell Divers 2 or Soul Worker, uh these two do indeed work with the antiche. Then if you're someone that wants to play Darker and Darker, uh the iron shield anti-che is supported through user space. So you can indeed play that game. Now then, when it comes to uh Z code or sign code three, uh this does indeed work on Linux as well through user space. Uh Black Desert is one game I've heard of and Eternal Return. These two games do indeed work. But then we do have uh uh Digimon Masters Online. This is indeed broken. So, another case of where the game studio probably doesn't want to enable support for some reason. Then, if you are someone that wants to play Splitgate uh 2 or Splitgate Arena Reloaded now, uh the red card anti-che uh does indeed work on Linux through Proton. Uh it was really nice to see when Splitgate 2 originally released uh the developers when they were in like the beta stage uh they worked on propon support with Valve. Uh so it was really awesome to see that they have stuck with that and it's continued to be supported. And then the last one we have here is Siphon uh which is a Tower of Fantasy uh that uses this anti-che. It does seem like it does indeed work through user base. And the last anti-che that we will talk about is the face it uh anti-che. So if you want to play counter strike and you want to play face it matches you are not going to be able to do this. Uh it says here from the face it anti-che team. There are no players to support Linux. I'm afraid it would be near impossible to provide the same level of protection on Linux as we do on Windows. There are too many different distributions and many different ways you could load/hide cheats as you have a much greater control over the operating system. More importantly, it also lacks some operating system security features that are available on Windows and important to secure the game. Some games who were previously providing Linux support have also dropped it for the same reasons, which as a comment right below here, uh this a lot of this is just simply not true. Uh it's most likely just being the person that wrote this comment doesn't know what they're talking about because they don't use Linux. They're not in the Linux environment. Uh they're not in the Linux community at all. Um so they just make another excuse which is a similar excuse to the other anti-che developers like EA for example. Uh just another case for not supporting Linux at all. All right. So, now that I've mentioned just about every single anti-che on uh you know when it comes to all the different games and if they support Linux or not uh what is the problem here? Uh if all these anti-cheets basically support Linux except like Activision, EA um you ricochet uh what is the problem here? Well, as I stated, these anti-cheets run in user space. Uh, and so a lot of these anti-che developers who are in the Windows space uh they don't trust uh the antich running in user space with what proton and even native is able to provide with its security. So this is where um EAC in Battle Life for example uh let's say Apex Legends Apex Legends used to support Linux for over like 2 years but as we saw when they supported Linux uh one they did a terrible job at doing it uh even though they worked with Valve which is great uh they failed many times to keep Linux users safe uh they force banned uh players three times in the course of 2 years including me. They false banned me for a whole week uh because they thought I was cheating when it was simply a false flag, a false positive uh and I was very annoyed and angry for that past week. Uh and how they treated me when it came to the EA support. Uh it was terrible. They basically told me to f off. Uh, and then I had to basically comment on Reddit and uh, basically all the other people who also got false banned were commenting on Reddit and uh, the studio of Apex Legends, which was Respawn, uh, they they're the ones who removed all of those false bands, including mine. Uh, well, the EA support basically said just go away even though I was proving my innocence. uh they continued to say that I was cheating and they wouldn't remove it until Respawn manually removed it. And the one of the biggest security violations with Apex Legends that did occur was about um how someone on Windows could spoof themselves to run the game in user space with the anti-che saying that they're a Linux user. Um so that was a really big problem and it's something that EA did not solve. And instead of actually trying to resolve these problems, these security problems with the anti-che and the game, uh, which by the way, the game, you know, networking side of things, uh, the game engine as well, for some reason, had so many different like violations that happened with plenty of cheaters being able to get into different people's accounts. Uh, when it came to live matches, being able to inject cheaters into professional players. by the way. Uh it was absolutely insane um how bad it was getting and they decided to just blame it on Linux and they dropped Linux support. Uh and then the cheating didn't go away. The cheating is still there. Uh and EA and Respawn don't really do much to actually stop cheaters from cheating in their game. So you can see where with EAC for example, uh you the Into Cheek does support Linux, but it requires the game studio to still do some work on fixing their game basically and trying to provide the best security possible and games like Apex Legends or Respawn and EA, they have failed to do that. Uh, and so they just don't want to support Linux at all until maybe I guess the market share is high enough where they can actually make some revenue off of it. Um, but for right now, if you want to play those games, they are blocked. Basically, any of the EA multiplayer games, they just not going to work anymore. Uh, and then when it comes to the other games like uh down below here, like Fortnite for example. Now, Fortnite uh could work on Linux. Uh but the CEO of Epic Games, uh uh Mr. Little Tim Sweeney, uh doesn't want to support Linux until it's got hundreds of millions of users that want to play Fortnite. Uh so, I really don't understand that because that's super unrealistic. And I feel like he said that on purpose because he knows that's not really going to happen uh anytime soon. Uh most people who use Linux aren't 12 years old anymore who want to play Fortnite. Uh most people are in, you know, the their late 20s, you know, mid30s, uh don't really want to play Fortnite. So, it's kind of like the Linux user base, it's never going to be that high. So, Fortnite's probably never going to be supported unless we have like lots of sales on the Steam machine or something. Uh it's simply not going to happen. Then uh similar with Battle Eye uh this also like I said does work on Linux for user space. Uh the problem again is where certain game studios do not want to support Linux because of you know excuses excuses excuses. Like Destiny 2 for example u they've said a couple times even though they actually did support Linux in a different environment which was um Google's cloud streaming uh stuff that was running Linux and Destiny 2 was supported natively on it as well. Uh they don't want to support Linux in general. uh either it be through Proton or only supporting Steam OS or Steam Deck. Um at least at this time uh Bungie have said that they just don't want to support it because of many excuses like the security isn't good enough or something and they want to you know go into the kernel space and watch what you do so that you don't cheat. And I'm pretty sure the same goes with Escape from Tarov. This is another popular game that people like to play. It does not support um Linux at all. you can play um like an offline solo run thing. Um so you can kind of play it, but you can't play online with other players uh which does suck. And the same goes with uh GTA 5 or GTA V enhanced is what most people are playing today. Uh it only supports the single player mode. If you try to do GTA 5 enhanced online, uh that isn't going to work. And that's because Rockstar doesn't want to enable the proton support with the battle anti-che. Now, with uh Pub G, this is another game that does not support Linux. Uh, and this is because I would say it's because it's running actually multiple different anti-cheets. Uh, and this might be the case for some of the other games where on the server side, they might have things that aren't compatible with Linux. And so, it would actually require some money to be invested to support it properly. And for PUBG's case, they're running like two or three anti-cheets uh on the client side that don't support Linux, I'm pretty sure. So, that's a whole bunch of worms that PUBG is going to have to figure out if they want to support Linux. But for right now, it is broken. And another game we have here is Rainbow Six Siege X. Uh which we can just call it R six basically or R sixx. Uh this is also broken even though it uses battle line. they could enable support, but for some reason, uh, again, there's been excuses as to, you know, not supporting Linux. Uh, there hasn't been really any like, um, public information as to why they don't want don't want to support Linux. Um, but if you have been on the Rainbow Six Siege uh feedback website that Ubisoft uh hosts, there have been plenty of open feedback to try and get uh Linux supported and I have contributed to those comments plenty of times over the past like 3 years and they continue to just insta close them and say that we are not going to support Linux in any fashion. End of story. Uh which is again disappointing. Now, one of the good things that are happening in the anti-che space right now that will make Linux compatibility more possible is the fact that serverside anti-che is becoming more uh [snorts] relevant with the game studios creating their own solutions for serverside anti-che. For example, uh Embark Studios, they have their own serverside antiche that they don't like to talk about. Uh but there's whole there's a bunch of whole like documentation online that you can find about the research that they've done uh with basically how cheaters interact with computers. Uh and you can see that Arc Raiders and the finals these two games use easy antiche with the serverside antiche and they support Linux under proton. And one of the really good things about EIC and Battle Eye is they have made it really really easy to actually enable uh Linux support under Proton at least. Uh, if you want to enable your game that you use EAC, you can go to the Epic Games dashboard for your anti-che because most people are using the EOS version of EAC, which stands for the Epic um online service or something. Uh, you can go to that Epic Games dashboard and there will be a toggle to enable Linux support under Proton. It's literally a tick and it's literally a server side thing. So you don't have to send out a dame update or anything. It's all done on the server side. And then when it comes to Battle Eye, it also is a server side thing where you need to send a email to Battle Eye to get your game uh working with Battle Eye. And I have heard as well uh that games like uh you like Apex Legends when they used to support Linux um Embark Studios with Arc Raiders and the finals and some others uh they are able to work with Valve as well. Uh there is a page for the anti-che stuff if you want to support Linux where you can you can go and contact Valve if you're a game studio that wants to support Linux with an anti-che uh and they will work with you to get it working. So on this website here from the valve partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/proton steamames.com/doc/steamdeck/proton. There is a whole page about supporting your game that uses an anti-che to support it under Proton um either on the Steam Deck or just Linux in general. It says Proton is compatibly layered for allow Windows games to run on Linux by using a modified version of Wine and a collection of high performance graphics API implementations. The team has been working on improving Proton for a while now and there's a large amount coverage. Most APIs are already supported by Proton and most games work out of the box. Um, so as you see here, Proton anti-che support. Proton supports some common anti-che middleware including easy antiche in battle eye. So as you see here, Proton supports easy interg without requiring any recomp completion, but it does require you to manually enable support for your build. For the epic online service version of EAC, see instructions here, which is on the Epic Games website. It is about uh enabling the uh Linux Proton anti-che support which it does say on this page here uh Linux wine and proton support. It is possible to run many Windows games on Linux using the wine or proton compatibility layers and the interch client protection can support this configuration. To enable support for your game, you must be using SDK version 1.14 or greater and activate a client module for the Linux platform. Players running the game using W or Proton will use the Linux client module. So you should test and activate client module updates for Linux regularly in addition to Windows. So as you can see Epic Games with uh Easy Antiche with the EOS version. It is uh quite not necessarily easy uh but it's pretty simple to understand if you are a antiche developer to enable this support. And then when it comes uh to battle uh battle proton supports battle and battleai enabled games each tarter requires a manual configuration step. So please email your valve or battle technical contact for details. So you literally just need to send an email either to Valve or Battle to get this uh supported on your game. And then the other things are the known Proton uh issues with the anti-che stuff. So it does say some things about .NET uh or some QT stuff not working properly or maybe some workarounds you may have to do. Uh it does say that on antiche side uh we recommend using user space anti-che components for best results as they can typically run in the wine environment and provide the same level of functionality. Kernelbased solutions are not currently supported and are not recommended. Note we have been working with most anti-che technology providers to provide proton compatibility. If your solution currently isn't working, please reach out to both your vendor and Valve for support. And then we got the anti- tamper/drm. In general, we don't recommend use of such solutions across any PC platforms as they may impact disc usage and overall performance. Getting them fully functional in the one environment can take some time and add significant latency to getting your title supported. So, if you are a anti-che developer and again you want your game to work on Linux under Proton with one of these anti-cheets that do support, which most do uh I would highly recommend going to this and contacting Valve or contacting Battle Eye or if you're using uh Epic Games, the EOS version of um Easy Antiche. I would go to this documentation or just go to the Epic Games dashboard thing and you should be able to enable it if you're on that SDK version or higher, which is like 1.14 or higher. So, I would say the landscape of playing multiplayer games on Linux has gotten a lot better versus 2 or 3 years ago. Uh, it has been increasing with compatibility and there is more games that work on Linux versus ones that don't. If we go to the anti-cheat home here, we can see a lovely stat of games that are broken and working and ones that are only available on Steam Deck/Steam OS. And we can see that there's 122 that are working and 71 that are broken. Even though 71, you know, 71 games that you cannot play on Linux, that is a lot of games that people probably want to play. Uh, but if you are someone that wants to jump over to Linux and you're worried about multiplayer games, I'd highly recommend looking at this list from gaming on Linux.com. They seem to keep things rather up to date. You can search for the game that you want to play from like your Steam library or any other different type of game store will work as well with these games that use these anti-cheets uh to see if they work on Linux or not. Some of the games that I play and recommend and I trust when it comes to them supporting Linux in a long term uh would be Embark Studios. They uh run the finals and Arc Raiders. They uh work with Valve. They have said this publicly on their update uh patch notes for the finals. Uh they're working with Valve. They're working with codew weavers which is the people that work on Wine uh to keep their game one compatible. So when a new update comes out, the game will continue to work as best as possible on the majority of hardware. Of course, there may be still some problems. Uh and then when it comes to the anti-che side of things, they have been implementing on the finals, uh they have implemented uh the denuvo or denuvo anti-che, which is not the same as the DRM denovo. This is different. uh they've implemented that with EAC and serverside and continue to support Linux under Proton which is really awesome to see. Then another one I would trust is Overwatch. Uh they've been supporting Linux basically since the beginning of when Overwatch originally released in like 2017. I think it was like 2017 or 2018 is when they started supporting Linux roughly. Uh but basically since the inception of when Overwatch officially launched, uh Blizzard was helping uh the Linux support through Wine and it was even before DXVK was a thing. Uh but they've been continuing to at least on the anti-che side keep the Warden anti-che supported and if anyone gets like false banned or something like that, which hasn't happened in a long time, um people have been unbanned. So surprisingly really good from the Blizzard team. Uh, and then when it comes to all the other Blizzard games, those do work on Linux as well. Uh, and I'm pretty sure they may use the same anti-che, so you can rather trust those games to continue to work. Uh, and then another one is Marvel Rivals. Uh, you do have to use um the Steam Deck uh, launch command, which was updated on 2024. I don't know if this is necessarily needed anymore. If I remember correctly, you don't need to use this. Uh, I've launched the game without this environment variable for a long time now and the game works perfectly fine. Uh, so this is another game that I would trust because Marvel Rivals has publicly stated that they've um used Bazite as a Linux distro to get Marvel Rivals compatible with the NEAC Protect and I'm pretty sure they're working with Valve as well to keep their game uh maintained on under Proton. And then of course um all of Valve Valve's games they all uh basically all of them are natively supported on Linux except um Deadlock which isn't really isn't officially out yet. So there isn't any Linux binary but they allow you to play it under Proton uh and it's forced as Proton Experimental by default. So if you try to play that game it should work perfectly fine if you are invited to Deadlock u play tests and all that stuff. But for uh the rest of Valve's games, you know, the Counter-Strike, um Counter-Strike 2, the Source Counter-Strike, uh and then uh TF2 or Dota 2, they all work on Linux when it comes to the anti-che side of things. Uh so you should have no problems at least getting into a match and playing the game. Now, I do really think uh that in 2026, this is going to continue to improve the anti-che compatibility, and that is the Steam machine. Uh and of course, the Steam Deck and any other device that's running Steam OS and in general, just more people switching over to Linux from Microsop. uh the anti solution should improve I would say if the steam machine does sell well if it's a good price uh and people are willing to buy a rather tiny box to use for like a decade or something until they buy another one probably when the Steam Machine 2 releases probably or something like that. Um, the anti-che stuff I feel like is going to improve quite a lot. And a lot of these games are going to invest money uh and probably invest more developers to support Linux uh because of devices like the Steam Machine and all the handhelds and um just Linux desktop in general just becoming more popular. So the conclusion is that you can play a lot of different games on Linux with the anti-cheats that are available. uh unless you want to play, you know, like EA's games or you want to play Call of Duty like the latest ones or if you want to play Valerant or League of Legends or you want to play Rainbow Six Siege or Destiny 2 or PUBG, um all of those games won't work, but the rest of the games are basically supported in some fashion. Uh if you guys, uh, you know, are having a problem with a particular game that uses an anti-che and it won't launch for some reason, definitely comment down below. I'd really love to know and I'd see if I can at least help and point you in the right direction as to why uh that game isn't working on Linux. Uh either it be you have to use a particular Proton runner, which isn't really use usually the case anymore um or if you have the runtimes installed for these anti-heets to work. So, if you guys did enjoy this video, definitely give it a like. Definitely subscribe to the channel. Uh again, comment down below. Uh, you know, of course, this video is going to get outdated. So, uh, at some point, uh, a lot of these games that I did say that are blocked may not be blocked in the future, which would be really, uh, nice to see because more people will be willing to switch over to Linux because their game is supported. And thank you to my supporters. I'll show a text across the screen. Thank you for your money every single damn month. I really do appreciate it. And I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.

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