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Never_Go_Jose
Seasoned Novice
5 months ago

Disappointed by Battlefield 6’s Lack of Linux Support

To whom it may concern,

I was genuinely excited about Battlefield 6. The trailers, the gameplay previews—all of it looked amazing. But that excitement was instantly deflated when I realized there’s no  support for Linux at all!

I’m running Ubuntu LTS and have absolutely no interest in switching back to Windows just to play EA games. It’s frustrating, to say the least, that in 2025 we’re still dealing with such narrow platform support. Linux users are no longer a fringe group—we’re passionate, loyal, and growing. Ignoring us feels like a slap in the face.

I won’t be buying Battlefield 6 unless Linux support is taken seriously. Simple as that. Please rethink this decision—not just for me, but for the entire Linux community.

Regards,
A very disappointed gamer

117 Replies

  • 58762a0edccf2092's avatar
    58762a0edccf2092
    New Novice
    1 month ago

    The lack of knowledge in your side is far and I don't blame you.
    Just enabling secure boot / TPM not directly making your computer more secure.
    "implement secure boot and the bonus is my pc is now more secure for things not related to games" Its not making anything more secure.
    If you want make your computer more secure using secure boot you should do it with more secure ways then just enabling it.

    1. Secure boot required you to sign every piece of software you use even if its a software you creates (Developer).
    2. Softwares that are not signed by Big vendors like "GlobalSign", "Sectigo (Comodo), Digicert and some more vendors like this will never work on your computer with secure boot.
    3. Its not that hard to bypass secureboot if you're not signing your bios and locking it with signed key for booting the system.
    4. TPM is not part of microsoft they just use it in windows 11.
    5. Anti cheat systems should never be client side from my opinion. Users should decide what to install and what not install on their own systems. It should always be server sided from my opinion.

    6. EA Just love to make games that fails to comply with other OSs just like Nvidia and Apple and Microsoft.
    7. A lot of the cheats programs are signed today by certificates so it wouldn't matter.
    8. Even Microsoft converted their cloud to Linux and also created WSL (Windows subsystem Linux) because their OS sucks especially for devs.

  • 58762a0edccf2092's avatar
    58762a0edccf2092
    New Novice
    1 month ago

    I never head to select anykey on Linux it was always automatically all this keys 

  • CoolitRich's avatar
    CoolitRich
    Rising Traveler
    1 month ago

      I don't think any aaa title has ever supported linux.   And I just assume because these games are infested by hackers,  the game companies don't want to reward the playerbase with servers and linux support because it would be rewarding the people that destroyed their industry.  I get where they coming from.    But like you I actually want the game supported on linux.  i literally just upgraded my whole pc just to have windows 11,  which I might not have even done if linux had good game support.     and there woulds probably be so many more people playing,  there woulds be less grief on the forums lol.

  • 58762a0edccf2092's avatar
    58762a0edccf2092
    New Novice
    30 days ago

    Well on windows is a lot easier to use game cheats since everything built for it.

    They can make their games support proton like epic games did.

    EA just never wanted to do it from the first place.

    Almost All games supporting Linux these days except EA games. 

    So we already has a good Linux gaming support, I use Linux for the last 12 years as main driver and everything works smoothly even better than what worked on windows.

  • BigBepis's avatar
    BigBepis
    Rising Newcomer
    10 days ago

    You’re kinda missing the real issue here, and it’s making this sound way more black-and-white than it actually is.

    Linux does support Secure Boot and TPM. That part isn’t up for debate. It’s been a thing for years, and plenty of distros already ship signed bootloaders, support TPM 2.0, disk encryption, measured boot, all of that. The problem isn’t that Linux “can’t do it” — it’s that Linux doesn’t just hand full kernel control to third-party anti-cheat software by default. That’s a conscious design choice, not laziness or a lack of capability.

    Also, Secure Boot and TPM don’t stop most cheating anyway. They only protect the boot process. Most modern cheats happen after the system has already started — memory manipulation, external hardware, DMA devices, VM tricks, logic exploits, you name it. Windows games that require Secure Boot, TPM, and kernel anti-cheat still have tons of cheaters, so clearly this isn’t the magic fix it’s being sold as.

    Your “it only took me an hour to enable TPM” story is kind of beside the point too. Nobody is arguing that turning it on is hard. The issue is EA choosing an anti-cheat approach that’s deeply tied to Windows internals instead of using solutions that already work cross-platform. Games are doing this right now — including competitive shooters — and they’re not collapsing under cheaters because of it.

    And blaming Linux devs for being “lazy” just doesn’t hold up. Linux is open by design. Users control their machines. That’s the whole point. A single universal key controlled by publishers or anti-cheat vendors wouldn’t be “more secure,” it’d be a massive downgrade in trust and user ownership. The flexibility you’re calling a flaw is literally why Linux is trusted in servers, infrastructure, and security-critical systems.

    At the end of the day, EA didn’t “have no choice.” They made a choice. It’s a business and tooling decision — one that favors Windows and kernel-level enforcement because it’s easier for them, not because Linux is incapable or unsafe. Calling that inevitability doesn’t make it true.

    So yeah, cheating sucks and devs should fight it — but pretending this is all Linux’s fault just doesn’t line up with how the tech actually works.

  • Castl3Bravo's avatar
    Castl3Bravo
    Rising Novice
    8 days ago

    Great summary of the finer points in the unfortunate decisions made that affect BF6. It's why I'm still looking for a competitive shooter that'll work on Linux.

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