BattlEye Anti-Cheat and Easy Anti-Cheat have announced support for more Linux devices, in particular, the upcoming Steam Deck.
The Steam Deck is a cool handheld PC by Valve that, can play all the games on your Steam library. But with a catch. By default, Steam Deck runs on SteamOS, a Linux-based OS instead of Windows. So not all games would work on Steam Deck natively, unless you install Windows on it.
However, there is a compatibility layer on top of the OS that allows it to run more games not designed to run on Linux devices natively. For the Steam Deck, it’s using Proton.
Easy Anti-Cheat, part of Epic Online Services, announced that they have added Linux and Mac support, which includes Wine and Proton compatibility support to get games run on Linux.
A day after, BattlEye Anti-Cheat announced they too will support Linux and Mac devices, on an opt-in basis.
Both anti-cheat solutions make mention specifically that this move also includes support for Steam Deck explicitly.
The addition of such support should ensure more games, in particular multiplayer games, to be able to run on the deck without the need to sideload another OS. So for more casual players who do not want to bother messing about what is essentially a PC, this is good news.
The Steam Deck, is set to launch starting this December.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun