Linux dxvk users as of late 2020
Alright so I'm currently trying to transition to Linux, although I'm wondering if the DXVK bans from January were still happening as i really do not want to be permanently banned from a game i paid f...
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There never were any DXVK bans. That never happened. Literally.
Look at every single article or thread that claims that it was a thing, and they all lead back to only ONE SOURCE. A single post on the Lutris forums where THREE people claim to have been banned for no reason, and they decided it must have been because of Wine/DXVK. One of those three was actually unbanned, so really it was only two people.
Tens of thousands (that's probably a conservative number considering there are about 1.3 million Linux gamers) of Linux users have played and continue to play Battlefield V for years without there EVER being a single banwave of any kind, let alone a "blanket ban" of Linux players.
Like, the amount the community flipped the out for literally no reason, just taking three random anonymous people on the internet making a claim with zero evidence whatsoever and legitimately going all torches-and-pitchforks to the point where several legitimate news articles and YT videos were made about it (all of them just saying that EA was banning all Linux users) was really pathetic to see, and it was the first real time I genuinely felt ashamed to be a part of the Linux gaming community.
TL;DR, it was never a thing, there were never any bans for using DXVK, you have zero risk of playing Battlefield V on Linux.
2042, now, is another story, because it uses EasyAntiCheat and doesn't work on Linux at all (but you won't be banned because you can't play).
(removed the profanty, keep it pg) -Atic
