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Anti-cheat stops Mecha BREAK running on Desktop Linux but works on Steam Deck
26 Feb 2025 at 10:24 am UTC

This is not a longstanding solution. Since cheaters could still make use of a Linux system, spoofed as a Steam Deck, to inject the cheat, as devs at Respawn already stated.
There does not exists a reliable alternative to kernel AC.

War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux
26 Jan 2025 at 4:18 pm UTC

Onhestly, the whole anticheat situation will change if and only if Valve would make the Steam Deck 2 into a trusted device with unique IDs. That won't do for Linux desktops of course, but it would be a start.

Wine 9.18 brings a new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg
25 Sep 2024 at 6:36 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlNew ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.
Obviously this won't fix all MF issues by kind of magic. But the advantage of using FFMPEG as a backend is that it's native, so if something broke is your implementation.

GPD talk about 'cooperating' with Valve for SteamOS on their devices
13 Jul 2022 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

"if you cannot win them, embrace them"

OneXPlayer looking at shipping handhelds with SteamOS like the Steam Deck
2 Apr 2022 at 11:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CatKillerNot all of them: the GPD boss went on a public rant about how the Deck was terrible because it couldn't run pirated games. I think he was feeling rather threatened by it.
I'm quite sure i can run pirated games on Linux, so why i couldn't on the deck?