The latest plea for official Proton support started on Reddit, where Scout339v2 shared their screenshot of Rust running “on a server with EAC disabled to show that the game already works perfectly on Linux.” Disabling Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is the key factor here, and part of a broader conversation where Facepunch and its Linux/Proton userbase don’t see eye-to-eye.
While it’s true Rust runs on Proton, you can’t join official servers, and most unofficial servers, with EAC disabled. Facepunch considered changing its stance in 2022 when the Steam Deck launched, but didn’t end up introducing official Proton support. COO Alistair McFarlane said at the time that Linux is “safer for cheat developers,” and that trying to support EAC on another platform could reduce the team’s ability to support Windows.
Actually, games that force kernel level spyware on users to combat cheating when the company literally controls the servers the game runs on and can afford to pay for moderators are not serious about catching cheaters.
Game Developers who don’t want to support Linux are not serious about developing games but getting more dollars for each dollar spent so an imaginary Stock Exchange line can go up.
I love having rootkits on my pc to play a poorly coded and Un-optimized game!
If you’re willing to spend some money on cheating there’s no way to prevent people from just aimbotting based on video output and feeding it as USB mouse commands. These anti-cheat systems are just shit solutions compared to server-side culling, superhuman reflex detection and report/review systems with premium servers and bans. Just give people in-game currency for correctly agreeing with the consensus and some people will go nuts on it for less than $1 per hour of in-game items.
Anti-cheat systems basically fuck with the kernel so if a game has it there’s a case for not playing it.
oh noooo, what am I gonna do if I cant play the game that typically involves me being chased by heavily armed end game players, screaming racial slurs at me for no good goddamn reason other than sociopathy?
I guess I’ll just have to console myself with the thousand other games that run perfectly fine because their devs arent self absorbed fuckwads.
Thats fair, I dont expect every game to open up to linux. I know Kernel AC can be easily bypassed but it still filters some cheaters and raises the barrier to entry. It also gives a lot of people peace of mind.
Skill issue
What a stupid excuse. It is possible to detect cheaters without even touching memory or cpu. You could do the magic on the servers, if you are really serious about anti-cheat.
And I actually liked facepunch, especially what Garry was doing.
Edit: Checked who Alistair McFarlane is. Just a producer. Has no idea about technical stuff. So why the fuck do they let them speak about technical topics if he clearly has no clue about them?!
Much like people who craft their games with human hands aren’t really serious about AI generated art.
I remember there was a script(server side) that disables EAC for Linux/proton and enables it for Windows, for some reason scripting is done in C# (native language). (BTW I never played rust but learned this from a friend)
This always screams of a person that thinks their views are the default views of reality. Really shows how self centered he is.
Thank you for your insight, Nude Bullying Simulator dev. Obviously you know about serious subjects.
More games should allow your character to go fully nude. Not to bully other people, but simply because it’s fun.
Then I have ‘no plans’ on ever giving them money for their shitty designed game
Oh, this is about that shitty survival game‽ I thought it was talking about the rust language. I was so very confused.
Honestly, that initial confusion probably boosts this topic’s popularity on the fediverse.
The irony of it all is the best cheats of which I won’t discuss bypass all anticheat including theirs. Their concern is only for the low hanging fruit for appearance only.
Can’t have Rust on Linux? Just do it in C/C++!
Let’s use SDL3 + Rust and make the game Rust in The programming language Rust.
;)
