Do it for Tux
Switching to Linux allowed me to quit Valorant cold turkey. Best upside of the whole thing by far.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
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Isn't it Valorant, Rocket League, and Fortnite that are the biggest games that require that specific anti-cheat?
Rocket League runs natively on Linux iirc
Correct. And plays very well on the steam deck
As a non-gamer I'm only relaying the information that I've heard from Gamers I know lol
Apparently support was dropped in 2020, so it I who is the fake gamer
But I'm playing rocket league on Linux right now?
Indeed, we are all fake gamers here
I quit Desiny 2 a few months before I made the switch, and it really helped ensure I'll never go back to that dogshit.
not being able to run valorant, lol, and fortnite is an argument FOR Linux ngl
Some statistically significant number of LOL players who upgraded to Linux probably decided to start playing DOTA 2 instead. I don't know what could be done for those poor souls, maybe we should make an OS that can't run any MOBA.
i can still play like 95% of my games.. that's plenty good enough for me
this is me except rocket league
Rocket League runs on Linux, doesn't it?
Last I played it, it worked. So, did it stop working this month or something?
Anything that uses the evil hexbear is hit or miss depending on which binary it ships with. Epic ships a Linux native version, that developers can allow to tunnel through Proton to the Windows binary, but unlike the Windows binary it doesn't have kernel level access. Meaning it's "less effective" at preventing cheating since it can't snoop your entire system using root access.
So basically a game developer can flip a switch to allow anything to run on Linux, but they can also unflip that switch and brick Linux installs from playing online.
it used to run natively but then it got sold and the new guys discontinued it 
On protonDB, people are still reporting that it works.
so is protonDB a distro..?
No, it’s a database of games that work with steam’s proton (aka Steam Play)
Proton is Valve's software to play Windows games on Linux. It's mostly integrated with Steam, but can also be used for other games.
ProtonDB is a website to look up whether the games run with proton and, if necessary, any extra steps are required to make it work.
Not anymore 
I will remember this and ask you if you switched to linux next time I see one of your comments. You have no excuse now 