On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 13:44:48 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'The Verge:
When will Bungie let Destiny 2 come to Valve's Steam Deck handheld gaming PC? It's looking like the answer is never -- because the soon-to-be Sony subsidiary has published a help page that not only says the game's unsupported, but outright threatens to ban prospective Steam Deck players (via Wario64).'
Some analysis of the reasons why some game makers, at least the bigger ones, are being so hostile to a Linux-based platform <https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/why-the-steam-deck-might-be-too-open-for-fortnite-and-destiny-2/>: When [CEO] Sweeney was pressed on why Epic wasn't interested in porting Fortnite, he said, "We don’t have confidence that we’d be able to combat cheating at scale under a wide array of kernel configurations, including custom ones." It seems that, on Windows, anti-cheat systems typically hook quite deeply into the kernel. Valve is not supporting this on its Linux-based platform (at least, not initially), recommending that game vendors use user-space hooks instead. And these may not be as effective as the vendors like. And even kernel-based hooks may not work all that well anyway.