The game doesn’t become inherently less enjoyable just because your system doesn’t meet the requirements to run it.

There is a big problem in having to change your worldview so that no longer being able to enjoy a game you wanted to experience becomes a non-issue.

Less cheaters?

I don’t know what you mean.

Sure, but from the end user perspective, it doesn’t matter whose fault it is - the result is you can’t play a game you otherwise just can in Windows. We know it’s their fault.

If you never play any games with anticheat that’s fine, but all it takes is one game, and then later another, and then later another, to make Linux a dealbreaker for many gamers. These are not unpopular games.

It can be the whole difference between someone sticking with Windows but itching to make the switch, and someone actually making the switch.

What good is 90% of games working if you have 3 games that you really want to play that don’t work?

Had a quick look into this, this is the best related info I could find on the situation with Rust.

But what percentage of games that use anticheat?

I feel like demos have become longer recently than they used to be. It used to be that you could only get through the equivalent of a level or two, now it’s more like they last up to 2 hours - the same period you might play and steam refund a game to demo it that way.

Seems like a very healthy development in gaming.

Nobody likes that anti-cheat is intrusive, most people just understand that it’s a necessary evil to not have cheaters in their games.

Each to their own obviously, if you don’t want install the anticheat to play the game, it’s a moot point.

I do primarily play games, but it only takes one program to not work for the whole OS to be a failure for that use case.

And then over time, another program, then another program. It either all works or none of it does.

I almost forgot to mention, because I always forget, if you play games that use anti-cheat, you are almost certainly ruled out, even if the ones you play are supported, because later you might want to play something that isn’t supported - and again, that’s all it takes to not be suitable. https://areweanticheatyet.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/