I've been seeing a few of this type of post, so I decided to share mine. Now, you might be wondering "why the heck is this guy posting his steam playtime chart in a Linux gaming community, when most of it is windows?"
Well, that's because Linux is part of the chart. Last year it wasn't. Just like all previous years. However this year, even if late in the year, I have playtime on Linux.
About half a year ago I built my first PC with Linux in mind from before getting the parts (first time I knew I'd be using predominantly Linux from the start). I still have my windows disk because I haven't got round to moving all the files from there yet, so its still formatted as NTFS and just mounted so I have easy access. I havent booted it since building the PC. I havent needed to. Sure I cant play Destiny 2 or Apex for example, but ehh. Never really played Apex much before anyway, and I'll live without destiny 2.
Heres to 2024 being 100% penguin, or at least being far more than windows π»
Apex Legends works including EAC
While it technically works it has massive issues.
After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.
I've tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions...
And it's definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.
The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.
I thought we were having issues with EAC on linux. So do any games with it work now, or is it not a general thing yet?
A few games that could support it with the flick of a switch (or quite literally a checkbox) such as Rust and Fortnite do not, but EAC itself does support Linux and quite well. VRChat uses EAC and it runs just fine (thousands of hours with it working), just as one example.
At this point, if a game doesn't work on Linux with EAC, it is 100% pure unadulterated laziness on the company's part. They can literally enable it and say "We officially don't support Linux, don't ask us for help if you play on it."
Fortnite doesn't work because of Tim Sweeney.
Rust doesn't work for technical reasons they're sorting out, they want to support Linux.
While I don't play Apex I have put way too much time into Battlebit Remastered which also uses EAC and I've never had an issue being kicked.
Other games I've tried with EAC are Ironsight, Killing Floor 2 and Elden Ring, and they all worked fine. Rust being the only one I had to give up after switching (tho that's probably a good thing for my mental health)
If you want any information on the current status of Anti-cheat in Linux, you should just go to AreWeAntiCheatYet