When we looked at the state of Linux gaming after its 12-month Valve anniversary, we found nearly 1,000 professional, commercially distributed games available as of February 2015. But this weekend there's an even bigger numeric milestone to celebrate according to the Linux site Phoronix—1,500 Linux titles are currently available through Steam.
The five most popular Linux titles for Steam include major developer offerings like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (the rest of the top five according to Phoronix includes ARK: Survival Evolved, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2). And this summer, a small indie game called Don't Be Patchman even became the first Linux-exclusive launch on Steam.
That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA's own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.
Now if you try to run it, you'll be greeted with an error. A shame to see a game that's multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games. Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it's only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?
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Yes counter cheating that is good but when the ea app on pc is still totally broken and these cheaters are on 2042 same anti cheat this is just putting scotch tape on trumps file cabinet to prevent leaks its nothing more than a stop gap.
I mention ea app as for 4years it was in beta then tossed out with 3 year old issues and i still cant not get the products that i purchased on origin yeah i purchased digital but guess what there is no dvd games on pc anymore.
The rough part of all of this is that for those of us on PC mostly be it Windows or Linux based, the anti-cheat sucks up a lot of resources. It kind of reminds me of the conversation between, security and freedom. Too much of ether is both good if managed well or very bad. We just as gamers keep seeing this pop up over and over again. Wish I had some magic wand to stop cheaters... but I don't... hell we just seen what happened with Apex at a high level event.. getting that kind of access and such is not good... but at the same time. Can anyone, one person provide me an example where Anti Cheat has even like a hit rate above 50? I know I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but it seems the cheaters beat the systems in place time and time again. Where there is a lock, and a smith to make it. We always will have a thief that breaks it.
Despite an insurmountable lead for Windows, MacOS has been in second place. Thanks to the Steam Deck, Linux has overtaken Apple's OS on Steam.
Really just tells you how small the MacOS gaming market was even after all this time.
That’s awesome, well deserved. I love my Steam Deck. Steam OS is fantastic at this point. I can do almost anything on Deck with desktop mode that I use my normal laptop for. Since launch it has constantly improved. One of my favorite devices ever
This comes after AMD's decision to incorporate Linux into their hardware.
That's cool, I much prefer Linux to Windows, and games is the only reason I still have windows at all.
Maybe I'll give another shot at setting up a steamos installation
They are just determinte to make that OS popular. When will they learn it will never be widespread or everywhere like Windows an for as long that windows exsit. JMO
@castillo + 3m ago
"They are just determinte to make that OS popular. When will they learn it will never be widespread or everywhere like Windows an for as long that windows exsit. JMO"
Many thought the same thing about Windows Mobile for the base Smartphone for powering a smartphone..no way was Apple's iOS ever going to be that popular. With a $500.00 price point Subsidized with no keyboard. No business client will be interested into that phone since it does not have a Keyboard.
Back in 2007 Steve b. Thought the same way when windows mobile up to that point, took out palm inc's palm pilot OS for the #1 OS for not only PDA's but also the very Term "smartphone" was coined because of Microsoft's Windows CE , pocket PC & evolution to Windows Mobile from Pocket PC 2000 to Windows Mobile 6.1 for over 8 years Microsoft's Windows OS was the leader in Mobile device OS for Advanced OS mobile devices.
Now .. not only is Apple iOS, but Also Google's Android OS is also not only as popular but is Infact on more mobile devices and is being used by more consumers that a mobile Windows OS even has.
The point being now there is just as viable Popular OS's outside of Microsoft's Windows.
With Valve heading up a Linux made OS designed by Gamers for Gamers. You cannot dismiss this fact, that just like Steve B. Thought when Apple released the iPhone for the 1st time that , there would be no way it could be popular. Let alone Google also releasing another OS that also gained massive popularity. To think to be dismissive about it may end up making you look very foolish. Just ask how Steve B thinks about his attitude toward iOS and Android now.
That's one game for each Linux user.
I think when Vulkan breeds with Linux, we are going to see all the diffent flavours of Linux burst into life with the basic features and simplicity people need to move away from this Monopoly monsters called Windows.
Before when OpenGL used to get talked about in the headlines, its was the Hardware companies, now Vulkan has been announced, game developers are showing up to the party wanting more control and more of a say in how things should be done, because they want change, its that simple.
Their is a reason Windows 10 is the last OS from Microsoft, because they know whats coming and they have to get their marketshare in order, so they ram DX12 and Windows 10 down peoples throat as fast as they can, so they can be first to the table with a low-level API and convince vendors that they dont need anything else other than DX12, and its the reason why AMD/Mantle got shadowed, so i would say the API war is personel now that the Mantle spec as been thrown on the table at The Kronos Group.
With how many companies are supporting Vulkan, one might say it is designed not to fail.
I know one thing..... i'm ready for a change.