I used to play Apex Legends frequently, but since moving to Fedora for my operating system three months ago, I have been unable to do so. I want to know if you plan to make the game officially compatible with Linux in the future.
I appreciate your time.
Warm regards,
Enes
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.
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.
Hello, I recently switched to Linux (Nobara KDE), because I was FED UP with the microsoft and windows crap. I understand that Linux offers a much higher control over the system to users and it technically might be inviting for cheaters, but since Steam OS, Steam Deck, GabeCube and other, people started switching to linux.
Another thing, and that's a fact, easy anti-cheat is used in a lot of games, that have no issues on Linux. It's just a couple of games that don't support linux. Whether Linux community is small or big, it still brings money to the table, whether it's a passionate gamer or a sweaty wraith main.
Let's be honest. If someone is a cheater and they cheat on Linux, theres still the fact that even if they were on windows, they would find the way to bypass the EAC and other anticheat softwares with no issues, they always find a way and disabling linux support did, infact, not help with cheaters in apex.
So please, bring the Apex Linux support back. Or maybe let us play anything on Linux. Don't do it just for me or other linux users, do it for the newcomers too. We want to play our favourite games, without the microsoft/windows slop.
ofikoMazu As far as I'm aware of, Linux's removal is/was permanent, (so I don't foresee it making a return).
I hope this happens too. Shouldn't be labeled as cheaters when the game itself only thrived because of them... just like how tap strafing got removed from controller. And yall lost 250k players atleast on PC. The game has not seen a substantial uplift in players. And its not because the game is bad. Its because the people running the game are asleep at the wheel only in it for the money. This is what titanfall died for?... for you to label your biggest fans as cheaters because you cant implement features correctly. Genius. Can't be false advertising if its a "bug". It never was a bug.. just like supergliding that got implemented.. it wasn't a bug. But our favorite features get removed like punch boosting. this game has a dark pattern of people calling out the nonsense than they do nothing until there is enough uproar. EA in general has that track record.
https://itsfoss.com/news/ea-anti-cheat-expansion-plans/
You are wrong. They actually were hiring to work on this particular issue.
It's sad that they blame it on Linux... hacking will always be cat and mouse game but blocking entire OS... am speechless honestly. I moved to CachyOS recently and knew Apex aint going to work but am just so done with MS. I guess we will wait and see if one day EA decides to remove the block.
