Linux support for Apex Legends

Hi there,

I dont think support for Linux is ever coming back.

Dev Linux update

I am having the same Issue  and its a shame.

Linux has been my main Desktop of choice for a while now and never really looked back to the Micro$lop OS.
When i started playing  AL it ran fine on Linux and actually started playing the game and even purchased coins in order to support it at a time when it was running better on linux then it did on windows.  - I enjoyed it a lot while it lasted.

Now EA and the Developer actively preventing the game from running on Linux under the pretends of "Antiy-Cheating" measures is laughable and an outright insult to Linux gamers.  - It feels like a betrayal and smells like devs bending over backwards to please theyr corporate overlords interests.

2026 is the year of the linux desktop. - If EA doesnt realise this and stop blocking linux users from playing theyr games, they will see player numbers go down.
In my "bubble" there are quite a few active AL Legends players that are thinking about switching to linux and are as of now, still are held back because of this one game. I think not for much longer. - As soon as there is a game that hits the same nerves and runs smoothly under linux - they will be gone and for good. - Arc Raiders (which runs great on linux btw.) has done this for many of them. More will follow.

Fortunately there are enough other good games that do work well under linux that i can spend my time and money on, so i am not loosing sleep over it. - But it is still a shame, that a well made and maintained game like AL is going to loose parts  of its player base and lively community because of a stupid political decision like this.

The problem with native Linux and cheaters has never been Linux.. all the cheaters who played on Linux have since gone over to Windows. I checked the graphs - while there was a several week dip in hackers once Linux was taken down, it has since recovered to pre-ban levels. It didn't make the hackers quit hacking Apex, it just made them quit using Linux, and made Linux users who are legitimate (like me) quit playing Apex.

Was just checking in to see if you had restored our favorite game on our favorite operating system, but I guess I'm stuck spending my money elsewhere. Shame.

I was going to make a separate post, but it makes more sense to just leave this as a comment on this post.

I fall into the category of players that was content playing this game on Windows 10. I have ~2,500 hours on the game, and have spent a small fortune on apex packs and on cosmetics and such. I bought a Steam Deck to play games on the go, and was ecstatic to see that the game ran on it! I played it for a few days, but then did one of my routine "I'm taking a break from this game" phases.

After they end-of-life'd Windows 10, I was basically given the option of upgrade to Windows 11  or try out Linux. I remembered that Apex Legends, one of my favorite games, runs on my Steam Deck! I installed Bazzite on my desktop PC, and the gaming experience has been nothing short of spectacular. I've had the occasional issue, and getting features like HDR to work took a small amount of fiddling. The majority of my favorite games run though! Helldivers 2, The Elder Scrolls games, Palworld, Enshrouded, etc. Anti-cheat aside, basically all of my games run great on Linux.

All that to say, I just recently checked ProtonDB to see if there was any configuration changes I needed to get Apex Legends running optimally, and I see a bunch of negative posts saying that anti-cheat support has been removed. 

I know you are all doing your best to keep the cheater population down, but it's very disheartening to know that I'm losing what used to be one of my favorite games to the upgrade from Windows 10 to Bazzite. I have no intention of switching back to Windows (It's been ~6 months of gaming on Linux).

With the latest Steam Hardware Survey now showing ~5.3% of the steam clients running Linux, it seems likely that number will continue to go up. Even if Linux players are a minority, we're a growing one. Many of us are long-time, paying players that would return in a heartbeat if support was ever added back.