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Valve's Proton (so Wine + DXVK + some other additions) revolutionized gaming on Linux. I play games both for fun and work, and for a solid 3+ years now, gaming
by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Valve's Proton (so Wine + DXVK + some other additions) revolutionized gaming on Linux. I play games both for fun and work, and for a solid 3+ years now, gaming on Linux has been an "it just works" experience for me, and should be for most games that don't use kernel-level anticheat.
- owaislone 6mo agoI really is impressive. I wish publishers like EA and anti-cheat developers weren't so reluctant to support it. I hope Steam devices and SteamOS gain enough traction to force their hands.
- amatecha 6mo agohttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ea-javelin-anticheat-job-listing-mentions-future-support-for-linux-and-proton/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ea-javelin-anticheat-j...
- sdenton4 6mo agoIdk, kernel anti cheat is a pretty clear sign to me that I should pick a different game to play anyway...
- HWR_14 6mo agoDoes windows make it easy to tell the installer wants to install kernel anti cheat? It used to pop up the generic binary "This application wants to change files on your computer" which could be installing in the protected "Program Files" or could be modifying anything.
- worthless-trash 6mo agoI dont think you can even load the "windows" kernel module in wine. Last time i tried with the capcom rootkit, it didnt work at all.
- colejohnson66 6mo agoWine doesn't emulate the NT kernel; Just the NT and Win32 userspace APIs. For example, Wine provides a `kernel32.dll` that maps API calls into the appropriate Linux ones. Anything kernel level is operating "below" Wine.
- HWR_14 6mo agoI read the person I was responding to saying they avoided games with root kits for moral, not technical, reasons. So I assumed they were on Windows, and AFAIK, windows just offers binary "changes" permissions which covers anything from installing in the slightly protected Program Files directory to installing a rootkit. In other words, can they even detect they are about to install a root kit?
- Melatonic 6mo agoGood question and one I am now looking into
- ZiiS 6mo agoIronically the only way I would ever consider robust anti-cheet is if the game installed a seperate bootable Linux witch didn't have the encryption keys for my main partition.
- somat 6mo agoyou may be on to something here. "you want to play our game, boot it off a usb drive"
- cultofmetatron 6mo agoPaying for a game that inserts rootkits into your kernel feels like paying money to get molested. no thanks.
- Arwill 6mo agoHate to be the one saying this, but that rootkit is there to prevent you from molesting/cheating other players. So its not an one-sided issue. It is unfortunate that the developers found no other way of fighting cheats, sure. And by all means, if a game community is so toxic that it has to be policed by extreme measures, it is perhaps indeed better to avoid playing such a game altogether.
- cultofmetatron 6mo agoagreed. if a condition of attending an event was that I had to wear a chastity belt that prevented guests from raping each other, I'd think twice about attending alltogether.
- johanvts 6mo agoI don’t care if my shooter game “community” is toxic. I don’t have any interaction with the “community” other than to try and virtually kill its members. I wish my chess app had anti-cheat, there are just some people who will cheat and any game is more fun if they can be prevented from playing.
- Hikikomori 6mo agoBecause anti cheat on linux is completely useless.
- anakaine 6mo agoBy and large Im happy to not participate in games that use kernel level anti-cheat.
- BatteryMountain 6mo agoNow if only Steam would add a checkbox on their checkout page to add 10% donation/tip that goes directly to their upstream opensource dependencies (like the Wine team), that would be amazing! I would add extra money on every purchase to support these people!
- hochmartinez 6mo agohttps://www.winehq.org/donate https://www.winehq.org/donate
- moring 6mo agoRequires PayPal or credit card. The suggestion was to pay with your Steam Wallet or whatever payment method already used when you buy a Proton-based game on Steam.
- red-iron-pine 6mo agofor 99% of people it will also probably be paypal or credit card
- colejohnson66 6mo ago> Donate to the Wine Development Fund by cash, cheque, or international money order in US dollars.
- moring 6mo agoIMHO this supports the original point that payment via Steam would be an upgrade: Sending cash to a postal address isn't low-effort nor low-risk. Payment by cheque is something I have never done, nor would I know how to do it. I'd have to ask at my bank -- not low effort. I don't know if I'm an outlier here but I have never heard from any of my peers who ever did such a thing. The same or even worse is true for international money orders. The whole concept of making a money transfer to a postal address is something I have never heard of. Where's the IBAN? The Wine team is right to put even PayPal before all of these.
- ErroneousBosh 6mo ago> and should be for most games that don't use kernel-level anticheat. It actually gives a far better user experience for games like Battlefield 6, because on Linux they just don't work at all. Try it for yourself - it won't even start! By contrast if you run Battlefield 6 on Windows, eventually you'll end up playing it, and you'll wish you hadn't. It's a shitty buggy mess and you'll hate it. So, notch up another score for Linux!
- duttish 6mo agoIt's reached the level where a game not working is a suprise. Space Marine 2 was the latest one for me, but Steam is great at refunds if you do it quickly enough.
- Ferret7446 6mo agoSpace Marine 2 works, at least on steam deck
- duttish 6mo agoYea it seems very variable depending on hw / config etc. And the most recent patch at the time (I think this was during summer?) broke it for a bunch of other people on desktop that had it working before. For me it crashed after the first click in the menu.