On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:28:41 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Some popular titles remain incompatible, however. Boiling Steam noted that other developers appear averse to non-Windows gamers.'
Presumably the big sticking-point is anti-cheat. This is getting quite intrusive, to the point of loading custom system-watching code into the Windows kernel. Battlefield 6, recently launched, requires your machine to boot with Secure Boot so it can watch for the use of any potential cheating tools even *before* you start the game. At one point this caused the interesting situation that running a different game (Valorant), with its own anti-cheat system, was seen as an attempt to load some kind of cheat tool <https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/battlefield-6-open-beta-wont-run-if-you-have-valorant-installed-thanks-to-riots-anti-cheat-uninstall-if-you-plan-to-joint-the-second-open-beta-this-weekend>.