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Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?
We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.
it doesn't run on linux because of EAC
Nah, it doesn't work because the developer doesn't want it to. EAC works really well on Linux, the developer just has to enable it, which takes literally less than 10 seconds.
That's mostly true, but they also need to support it, which is a completely different ball of wax which involves QA testing, training support people, etc, perhaps with some dev work to ensure the experience is decent. It's extra work, and many devs don't want to deal with it.
Sometimes no support is better than poor support from a business perspective.
All the developer needs to do is push a button to make EAC work. They're probably busy hotfixing the 1.0 but I'm sure it'll work soon, they are excluding all steam deck users by not pressing it
Edit: apparently it's not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux https://www.protondb.com/app/2073850
The Finals use EAC and their own anti-cheat, the latter causes issues
thanks, edited to correct
Edit: apparently it’s not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux www.protondb.com/app/2073850
So it's 100% the developer's choices that have resulted in this train wreck of a thread.
Why is everyone always so stuck to one side or the other? Dual booting is a thing. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Just FYI, the expression makes more sense the other way around:
You can't eat your cake and have it too.
And yeah, dual booting is absolutely a thing. That said, I find rebooting to play a game silly, so I just avoid stuff that doesn't work on Linux. I can totally see the opposite perspective as well.
*Linux is all good if you don't play competitive multiplayer games where the developers don't want to enable EAC for Linux.
There, fixed that for you.
Surprised that people even still play Nexon trash to be honest.
Bait post aside, I never really understood why people make a big deal of "switching" to Linux or back to Windows.
An OS install is like 60 GiB. If you're a pro hacker gamer you probably have over a TiB of fast storage. Just keep the Windows install around and dual boot into it when/if you need it.
Pains me to see people saying "I permanently switched to Linux and deleted my Windows install", when you can keep it around for emergencies or modding.
Yup.
I have only booted into my Windows install like 2-3 times in the past 5-10 years or so. But I still have it, it just lives on a separate SSD and I just forget it exists. I've only booted in to set up Minecraft Bedrock (kids wanted cross play, but their friends flaked), one time to run updates (was going to upgrade to Win 11, but it hated my processor; maybe my new one works), and to test a couple things in Windows. That's it.
When Microsoft EOLs Win 10, I might go through the trouble of upgrading it again. I don't see much value in it, but it costs me nothing to keep it around. I'm not even sure if it still works after I upgraded the CPU and GPU, but I guess I'll find out the next time I try to boot it.
So some random new game is enough for you to change your whole operating system?
It's why I keep a Windows disk in my PC. There are a couple of fun games and some programs I need that just refuse to support Linux
Funny thing is that the game would probably work close to perfect if the devs just switched on the linux support in EAC. Sadly, it's just isn't worth for the devs. Linux user pool is too small and those who would play would generate new bug reports due to unconventional setup running through a compatibility layer.