With Activision and Bungies recent wins against cheat providers it is time SE's

[Baingoleth]

If it works on steam and says playable or better on steamdeck then it will work on any linux distro with steam installed just the same.

Yeah 2+ years ago when the deck was brand new there were issues with anti cheat in linux however that is not a thing anymore.

Also your post is just a bunch of paragraphs complaining about anti cheat (shocker) and saying that linux users wouldnt put up with anti cheat programs (yes they would because they currently do). There isn't a clear "issue" you have to be resolved... Unless of course you are trying to run games through steam on a VM in linux which... I, I have no idea you are going to have to clarify because that makes no sense. Just make sure proton is turned on and run the games through steam, even games that aren't steam games can be run through proton.

After this I'm not going to reply to you again because you told me to "get some help" on a public forum and we only just met. It's not a civil discussion so I'll not engage with you further.

Easy Anti Cheat is afaik still working and is in userland.
The conversation with some Linux gamers has been about anti-cheat again because some games using battle eye broke. A bunch of players were running it in a VM for awhile to get around the breakage but now that's been detected and blocked also. The word is that the devs are aware that workarounds with custom kernels is directly hooking into the game process and fooling the anti-cheat. The solution could be to make it so the kernel is trusted but no one I know will allow such a thing. This is what scares Linux users. A game that currently works fine will break because of how anti-cheat is implemented.

[Azureskies01]

Easy Anti Cheat is afaik still working and is in userland.

Incorrect, EZAC was one of the first to get linux support along with Battleye. If there happens to be a game using EZAC that doesn't work with linux (aka steamdeck) that is 100% because the game dev has abandoned the game, not because EZAC isn't supported in Linux.

[aiqa]

Incorrect, EZAC was one of the first to get linux support along with Battleye. If there happens to be a game using EZAC that doesn't work with linux (aka steamdeck) that is 100% because the game dev has abandoned the game, not because EZAC isn't supported in Linux.

I wasn't aware Linux is unable to run software that is abbandoned by it's devs. That is an interesting feature. How that does that work for software that is not worked on in the weekends?