While previously you've been able to play League of Legends on Linux, and there's some pretty die-hard fans using Wine to play it, that's set to end soon with Vanguard being introduced.

This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it’s still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game.

I thought this part was particularly interesting:

Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn’t been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
    121·
    7 months ago

    To be fair, I think the backdoors they’re referring to would be ones meant to allow Linux users to play.

    But with Riot being owned by a Chinese company, I suspect there are plenty of backdoors to go around.

    • WalrusByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, you’re right. It just sounds kinda bad to call them “our backdoors”. It’s not inaccurate, but still sounds kinda sus