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. 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. The first big step forward has just happened, though, right as game developers are starting to receive their Steam Deck dev kits. 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.
