But if a few clicks are all it takes to provide anti-cheat and Linux/Steam Deck compatibility, there's not much of an excuse to ignore it. It isn't an automatic affair, there is still minimal work to be done by the developers. Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.' 'To make it easy for developers to ship their games across PC platforms, support for the Wine and Proton compatibility layers on Linux is included. Wine (recursive backronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that aims to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.Wine also provides a software library, named Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems. Epic Games, owner of Easy Anti Cheat, has announced that the s oftware is now compatible with Linux, including WINE and Proton, as well as macOS. Les Jedi SWU sont heureux de vous accueillir sur Steam Au. The first big step forward has just happened, though, right as game developers are starting to receive their Steam Deck dev kits. It requires Carla to be installed system-wide, so it cannot work if Carla is downloaded manually.
The truth is that a lot of the popular Windows games that can't be played on Linux through Steam's Proton Compatibility layer, or through WINE, are because of anti-cheat software. One of the big flies in the Steam Deck ointment has always been how anti-cheat software will be handled.
