PC gamers using the Linux operating system have complained for many years about problems caused by Epic Games' anti-cheat solution. It seems that the company has decided to pay more attention to supporting this OS.
Easy Anti Cheat works on Linux, but not at the kernel level, which creates difficulties when trying to play competitive games that use EAC. Developers can completely refuse to support Linux, for example, this happened with Apex Legends.
In June, members of the Linux community noticed a job opening that gave them hope: Epic Games is currently looking for a "Senior Game Security Engineer."
According to the job description, the specialist will "write code in a highly unique and dynamic environment, countering cheats with minimal system interference," as well as develop anti-cheat capabilities for Linux at Epic, reverse-engineer cheats and other malicious software.
One of the most popular comments under the post with information about the found vacancy was the response from user YMaitreGEEK: "Wind of Change."
dydzio joked: "maybe it's because of my comment in response to [Epic CEO] Tim Sweeney's post about Steam's monopoly, I said I didn't care because [Valve] supports Linux."
Gamers hope that if Easy Anti Cheat support on Linux is indeed expanded, other video game developers will also pay attention to this operating system.
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