EA insists on putting malicious levels of invasive, essentially spyware, anticheat into all their multiplayer games. This time around it's Apex Legends on the chopping block. EA has disabled the Linux and Steam Deck versions of the anticheat used because in their eyes, it isn't dystopian levels of malicious enough to "ensure competitive integrity" or whatever corporate nonsense they're spewing these days to justify putting literal spyware into the deepest, most vulnerable levels of your Windows operating system. The worst part about this is now we can't play on Linux or Steam Deck. I detest Windows 11, and Microsoft continues to make the Windows experience worse and worse. I hate having to keep a Windows installation around just for a handful of games that refuse to cooperate with Linux. Apex was a decent game, but it's not a decent enough game to make me boot the atrocity that is Windows to continue playing, so good riddance. I won't be touching this disaster of a game again.

If they really are so worried about cheaters and "competitive integrity" that they feel the need to permaban Linux users, why not just implement the extreme measures for ranked mode? That's the mode where people actually care about this nonsense. At least let Linux users continue to enjoy the unranked modes. Competitive integrity isn't the be-all end-all of gaming. Games can be fun without this overly-competitive mindset forced onto the playerbase. Let the tryhards play ranked if they want this invasive garbage taking away their privacy just so they can be overly serious about something that should exist for entertainment purposes.

No Tux, no bux. I won't be buying any EA games in the future, and I don't think I will even be playing free-to-play offerings. I'm not going to risk getting into a game that they'll just pull the Linux plug on yet again.

EA insists on putting malicious levels of invasive, essentially spyware, anticheat into all their multiplayer games. This time around it's Apex Legends on the chopping block. EA has disabled the Linux and Steam Deck versions of the anticheat used because in their eyes, it isn't dystopian levels of malicious enough to "ensure competitive integrity" or whatever corporate nonsense they're spewing these days to justify putting literal spyware into the deepest, most vulnerable levels of your Windows operating system. The worst part about this is now we can't play on Linux or Steam Deck. I detest Windows 11, and Microsoft continues to make the Windows experience worse and worse. I hate having to keep a Windows installation around just for a handful of games that refuse to cooperate with Linux. Apex was a decent game, but it's not a decent enough game to make me boot the atrocity that is Windows to continue playing, so good riddance. I won't be touching this disaster of a game again. If they really are so worried about cheaters and "competitive integrity" that they feel the need to permaban Linux users, why not just implement the extreme measures for ranked mode? That's the mode where people actually care about this nonsense. At least let Linux users continue to enjoy the unranked modes. Competitive integrity isn't the be-all end-all of gaming. Games can be fun without this overly-competitive mindset forced onto the playerbase. Let the tryhards play ranked if they want this invasive garbage taking away their privacy just so they can be overly serious about something that should exist for entertainment purposes. No Tux, no bux. I won't be buying any EA games in the future, and I don't think I will even be playing free-to-play offerings. I'm not going to risk getting into a game that they'll just pull the Linux plug on yet again.