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5/14/2026 4:24:49 PM
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Destiny 2 on Linux
It's time guys, you have a pretty sizeable player base looking to play through Proton, and Battl-eye has Linux support. Why in the world do we not have that compatibility? As ram prices get higher, the Steam Machine will be a prime way for people to game on a budget.
As far as I have read, this can be resolved with a single email from the right person. It makes NO sense why Linux users are being punished for wanting to leave windows. D2 is the only reason I'm still using Windows, and soon enough, it probably won't be a good enough reason. Please enable Battle-Eye Linux compatibility.
There are people playing Destiny 2 on QEMU of all things!!! Why isn't Proton allowed?? Not to mention now Proton gives access for Arm devices to play Windows games increasing the potential player base even more!
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Not worth it as it adds nothing of value to to game
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1 Reply[quote]As far as I have read, this can be resolved with a single email from the right person. It makes NO sense why Linux users are being punished for wanting to leave windows. D2 is the only reason I'm still using Windows, and soon enough, it probably won't be a good enough reason. Please enable Battle-Eye Linux compatibility.[/quote] No, it cannot be resolved with a single email. It makes complete sense. While Linux has made giant leaps in gaming the past few years the anti-cheat situation is virtually non-existent and due to serious legal and technical reasons it won't be changing until there are hardware level solutions from Intel and AMD. This isn't even specific to Linux, x86 needs features (many of which exist on other platforms like my beloved SPARC) to keep up against cheat makers. BattlEye on Linux is nothing but a userspace shared object, it is not a kernel module and doesn't even have root permissions. It has zero ability to stop any cheating that is done in Destiny 2. It would be trivial to make a kernel module cheat for the game on Linux that would bypass anything that a userspace program could try to protect itself. Next issue, legality and technical problems. BattlEye and Bungie cannot make a proper anti-cheat for Linux anyway. The very nature of Linux being open source means the kernel cannot be trusted. AC secured gaming on Linux would require locked down signed Linux distros that do not permit any unsigned modules. Making a kernel anti-cheat on Linux has the legal issue of GPL license. A proprietary kernel module cannot access GPL licensed symbols in the Linux kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/939842/
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[quote]It's time guys, you have a pretty sizeable player base looking to play through Proton[/quote] ALL of linux is less than 5 percent of steam players. [quote]and Battl-eye has Linux support. Why in the world do we not have that compatibility?[/quote]1 anticheat does not make the game compatible. Bungie has their own in house AC that runs with Battleye, in addition to the fact that Battleye has to operate in a less effective mode to work on Linux. Even if they did "send the email" there are still costs associated with uptraining staff to support the new platform and security. All that to find out what Apex Legends already did. Linux will make cheating worse. Go through all that for the sake of less than less than what is likely 1 percent or less of an increase in playerbase and probably no to very little income.
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Cause Bungie doesn't want destiny to run on Linux. Simple reason.
