r/SteamOS • u/No_Nobody166 • 23h ago
question How do you guys deal with gaming online with friends?
Before I switch from windows to SteamOS, I thought that only big games (like BF, COD and Riot games) would be a problem to play. But this weekend some friends invited me to play with them, but every single game that we saw had some kind of kernel level anti-cheat (Ghost Recon, Apex, Back4Blood and so on), at the end we only played Arc Raiders because is the only one that somehow works fine.
How do you guys deal with that? Is SteamOS only worthy to those who only play single players?
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u/BoiCDumpsterFire 23h ago
There’s a lot of other options that do work. Rivals and overwatch both work great for example, but the kernel level anti-cheat is the current biggest problem for gaming on Linux. It’s not even effective so it doesn’t make sense. I’m hoping steamOS devices and the compatibility tag will push more devs away from using it but until then we gotta cope.
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u/No_Nobody166 22h ago
Yeah, I'm holding myself from backing to Windows cuz of it, I also believe that this new "hype" with the system may bring some attention to the game companies
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u/MagicBagel_ 21h ago
I just play games that support it. Hunt Showdown, Dead by Daylight, Warhammer Vermintide 2, Titanfall 2, Halo, the list goes on.
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u/SnooPets1826 20h ago
It sucks for people who mostly play FPS... But most everything else just doesn't usually have that level of anti cheat. MMOs, party games, etc all play fine.
It's only FPS where developers and gamers take it so seriously that they needed tons of anti-cheat.
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u/captainstormy 16h ago
Exactly what I was going to say.
The vast vast majority of the games that have issues are FPS shooters. If that's what you mainly play it's a big problem. If you don't play then it isn't a problem.
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u/Mrcod1997 17h ago
The Finals, and Halo work. You guys should try some older games too. GMod, Half life 2 deathmatch etc.
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u/Otocon96 23h ago
I deal with this by mostly giving up on multiplayer games now that in old. I use use my diy steam machine as a console basically exclusively for single player games.
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u/Chemical-Dust7695 13h ago
I don't play or buy games that require kernel level anti-cheats. Not even on Windows, so nothing to deal with.
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u/jolittlelene 7h ago
My friends mostly play roblox and Minecraft and stardew valley and Warframe, so i dont really care about playing those other games
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u/Away-Reading4857 21h ago
Kernel level anticheat is spyware.¯_(ツ)_/¯. Your best bet is to dual boot windows and only use it for gaming. Alternatively, you can install ProxMox and run both at the same time!
There are plenty of multiplayer games that support Linux, in fact, I haven't met one that hasn't yet. Darktide, Windrose, Pal World, Deadlock, Dota 2, Jump Space, Monster Hunter Wilds, Warframe, Space Marine 2, Wayfinder, Armored Core, Path of Exile, Deep Rock Galactic, Borderlands 4, Risk of Rain 1/2, Cult of the Lamb, Grim Dawn... to list a few.
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u/No_Nobody166 21h ago
I'll try these games, thanks
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u/phoenixgsu 18h ago
Helldivers 2
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u/Adrian97c 3h ago
Helldivers 2 works on Linux?
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u/phoenixgsu 3h ago
Yep
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u/Adrian97c 2h ago
Awesome, was going to buy it on my PS5 Pro, but just built a 7800x3d + 7800xt SteamPC!
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u/ButterscotchTop194 14h ago
Dual boot or cloud streaming gaming services.
Linux isn't really the best option for gaming yet.
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u/OkVirus8545 1h ago
Linux will never gain enough popularity to warrant it for the big hitters. Save yourself some head and just dual boot man. It’s really easy
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u/Haymaker_matt85 23h ago
I had to switch back to Windows unfortunately. I like SteamOS, but I’m predominantly an online gamer and SteamOS doesn’t work great for me right now. I might put my non-anticheat games on an extra drive with SteamOS in the near future.
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u/Eon_Alias 19h ago
PalWorld works on Linux. All of my friends are playing PalWorld. For the time being the problem is taking care of itself.
As far as I can tell they only games that require hardware level anti-cheat are the really sweaty pro-gamer stuff. And the sweatiest games I've played in the past decade are Elden Ring and Arc raiders. Which also work in Linux. So it's really been a non-issue.
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u/cliffom 23h ago
To be honest there is nothing to "deal with" per say. Users who want to be able to have flexibility in the ability to play those games will maintain a dual boot system. Otherwise you have to recognize and accept that some games won't work, primarily because of lower-level anti-cheat implementations. The gamble is, as SteamOS gains more popularity, more publishers and developers will recognize the need to support non-Windows platforms. But until then the only options are dual-boot with Windows, at which point maybe just stick with Windows.
Also that is not meant to be abrasive or prescriptive. I just wonder myself if someone had a PC that was solely for gaming and had games that only supported Windows, why go through the trouble to dual boot. My main gaming PC is a Windows 11 Machine (9950X3D/RTX 5800) and I built a SteamOS Fractal Terra (5800X3D/9070XT yes, like everyone else lately lol) that gets more playtime lately simply because gaming at the couch gets me away from my desk which is where I spend my entire day at work.