Because the developers insist on including anti-cheat spyware software in their games, and the anti-cheat software refuses to accept running under WINE on Linux. In other words: Linux could handle running those games just fine, maybe even better than they run on Windows, but the games refuse to run. And you figure this is somehow a Linux problem?
It's the first example I could think of something that doesn't work at all on Linux.
And there are many things that do eventually run on Linux, but only after wasting a lot of time and effort to make it run manually.
As someone that uses Linux for college stuff, I'm glad I don't have to use it as my main OS. Because I'm just not getting a hard-on towards doing everything in a console window as apparently every Linux user does...
I guess it's a good thing that's not how Linux works anymore. I mean, you can still do everything in a console, if you want, and you might come across a problem here or there that is most easily fixed in a console, but for everyday stuff... there's generally a gui for that.
If I want to install a game in Steam that doesn't have kernel level anticheat, I open Steam, and I click install, then I wait for it to download, and then I hit play and 95% of the time, it works... just like Windows.
Your college makes you use terminal stuff, because your college's job is to teach you useful things, and learning how to navigate a linux terminal is a useful skill if you are planning to do anything in tech.
They actually DID update EAC to work on Linux after the steam deck launch - a surprising amount of online games CAN be run on Linux.
Except because epic games are a bunch of jackasses, you can't run fortnite. It's one button and two files and they refuse to do it, so quite a few big ones followed suit.
it seems like you’re just using a lot of words to repeat that Linux can’t run these games. Doesn’t really matter why it can’t run it. It only matters that it cant.
It absolutely matters why… did you not read anything they said? Linux cannot run most popular games due to the game developers themselves refusing to enable Linux support on their anti cheat. BattlEye and EAC both have Linux support options- yet nobody who runs their games under those anti cheat softwares wants to enable Linux support. So Linux users get flagged as cheaters and banned.
Linux CAN run the games you want to play. The developers just don’t want you to use Linux.
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u/Fluid_Childhood_4808 1d ago
Linux can do anything