How about learning to fix it? What use does EAC have if it's compatible with Wine/Linux but it's not safely protecting from cheating?
Thank's Tim for destroying any hopes for games using this POS (piece of software :P) to be running on Linux.
I can't believe it... this statement renders all efforts from Valve bringing these games to Linux or the Deck worthless...

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I wonder if Epic will either adapt this project, or if they wanna come up with their own Linux or better Steam Deck native version of their launcher. Tim Sweeney was very exited about the openness of the Deck as it's a PC. And seeing the effort Valve and Epic put into the support for EAC, there is definitely some interest from Epic in the Deck. I can't imagine they expect people to install Windows to play games from the EGS, so if Epic officially wants their games on the Deck... some official support has to arrive.

Only 18 days left... *fingerscrossed*

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Looking forward to when the PPA updates. I hope they don't forget to whitelist the necessary 32bit libraries, maybe that's why it takes a bit longer for the update to arrive.
On Arch the new driver is already available.

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Quoting: BeamboomI purchased a hotas a while ago to play with Elite Dangerous - but I never got it to work. Steam didn't detect it.
Did you have to install some special software to get it to work or was it detected by the Steam client right away?

It was detected from within Elite: Dangerous, didn't check if Steam did detect it as well. In E:D I could map the buttons of my hotas directly, without any additional software. There was even a profile in E:D for the T-Flight Hotas X which I could load and modify.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeLinux needs the Thrustmaster configuration / Scripting stuff ported to it... then I could finally use Linux to play Elite: Dangerous... then again there are some third party tools that make the game a bit more playable that I think may have issues in Wine... maybe one day...

I'm playing Elite: Dangerous with a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X on Linux (at least I have played it a lot, not since the Odyssey update though), works ootb from within the game. Star Wars: Squadrons felt more like keyboard game to me, so I haven't tried it with a Hotas.

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No way! No effing way! EA? What? I can't trust my eyes...

Squadrons works great on Linux, even in VR! Well, there are some issues, it can crash here and there (though I guess it was related to async reprojection for me), but in general I enjoyed it a lot. And that was well enough for me, because I never thought it would get EAC support. Dang, this is cool.
You can watch my journey via the VoDs on youtube [External Link].

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Insurgency: Sandstorm now? :whistle:
Thanks to Valve and even Epic that they were still working on this and improving the situation. It's not as easy as with just sending an email to BattlEye... but it's close.
Fingers crossed!

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Nice to see Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the verified list, I'm wondering though if they also test against some of the reported issues on github. As the game itself runs fine, also when joining a session I had no issues. But when I am the host of the session, it happened annoyingly often that the game froze [External Link].
And looks is looks like to be an issue for more than just one game, as I observed this behaviour with GTFO as well. Works great when joining other sessions (mostly hosted on Windows), starts to hang when I am hosting. Not easy to reproduce as it's kinda random, but it definitely happens too often to be just a fluke.

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To be honest, I have no idea, what games I'm really playing on the Deck when it finally arrives. I'll test a lot of course out of curiosity, but if I'd really seriously play titles? Probably those who steer well with controllers. Like jump'n'run games, racing games, twin stick games. There are many console ports available that should be optimized for controller input, so maybe those. But anything that's in direction of FPS, I'll probably stick to keyboard and mouse input on my desktop PC.
But we'll see, maybe the Deck changes my behavior and preferences. Only time will tell.

Mostly I'm interested in the side effects of the Deck. That's its hardware and resulting updates to games, to make it work smooth on the Deck. And software, as Proton has already evolved and will evolve more, and hopefully helps publishers and devs to enable EAC for Proton/Wine. Things have changed already! We see a constant rise of Linux in the Steam hardware survey, big youtubers like LTT and Epos Vox gave Linux some screentime, Valve finally enabled CEG in the Linux Steam client, etc... and I can't wait to see what's more to come.

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This game is exceptionally well made. I've completed it in a bit more than 115h, built every road and 5 starred most posts.
I've never expected this game to be so damn good. The characters are awesome, as well narrated as animated. The scenery was awesome and the soundtrack incredible. I still miss playing it, but after completing the story, I cannot go back to it.
Though it was a bit confusing in the beginning, it was also making sense in the end.
It caused quite some emotions...
This is one of the very best games I've ever played!

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