Re: Linux support for Apex Legends
To the so-called "Engineers" and Anti-Cheat Integration Team:
Let’s stop pretending. You officially supported Linux and the Steam Deck via Proton. It ran beautifully. Then, in a cowardly and incompetent move, you completely revoked that support, scapegoating the Linux OS for your cheating epidemic. Meanwhile, Reddit and your own forums are still flooded with reports of Windows kernel-level aimbots and DMA hardware cheats. You exiled thousands of legitimate power users because your EAC implementation is an absolute joke.
Now, you force players to dual-boot into a bloated, unstable Windows ecosystem just to play your game. And what is our reward? Your mandatory, malware-esque EA App In-Game Overlay violently hooks into the DX12 render pipeline, causing fatal Access Violations during AMD shader compilation. It is beyond pathetic. I am forced to endure Windows—an OS that inexplicably throws stability errors and fights me on a standard 3600MHz memory configuration—just to accommodate your broken, crash-prone launcher.
My bare-metal Arch Linux setup, driven by the custom linux-zen kernel, offers infinitely better memory management, scheduler efficiency, and hardware determinism than the NT kernel could ever dream of. You blocked the ONLY operating system where users can actually control and stabilize their hardware, all to protect a Windows environment that your own first-party app actively sabotages.
Furthermore, I am not looking for generic PR apologies or basic troubleshooting from community managers. I demand a highly detailed, technically precise Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and a comprehensive Post-Mortem report directly from your engineering team. You need to explicitly explain exactly why your Win32 IGO is aggressively triggering memory access violations, how this bypassed your QA, and what your step-by-step architectural roadmap is to fix it.
Stop hiding behind the EAC Linux block. Re-enable Proton, fix your embarrassing Windows integration, and give us the technical transparency we deserve.
