Greetings!

Though I haven't played BDO in forever, I promised a friend I would pick it up again.

However, I said I wouldn't go back to windows for it, and would only play it on Linux.

Finally, the day where that is possible has come:

Epic EAC Official Linux/Wine Announcement

According to the announcement, all you have to do is click a box, and I can fulfill my promise and play with my friend from my operating system of choice.

I don't know if it's truly that simple. I don't know if it's easy to role out. But I would adore it if you could provide a status update on this matter, acknowledge its existence, or honestly anything along those lines. I would be more than willing to try out a beta or such with this enabled, if needed.

It would be amazing if you just enabled this function and let the community start trying this function out. I realise it might not be a huge percentage of your players that will want to do this and play this way, but if there's a way you'd enable this, I can, potentially, finally swap full time back to my Linux distro of choice.

Remember Steam Deck is just around the corner guys. Please give us some kind of official feedback. : )

Being able to play the game on linux would be amazing :)

i have to say i support this idea :)

Supporting this as well

Ditto on this, long-time Linux user and actually didn't even bother playing BDO for several years after I had originally looked into and purchased it, as it doesn't have a native Linux client and won't run under Proton (predominantly due to EAC).  At the current time, I'm using the Steam Remote Play function to stream from a Windows VM to Linux, but that isn't without its own drawbacks/issues.

While I know that asking for a native Linux client would be a significant undertaking and is very unlikely to ever happen, I believe that the next best thing would be for PA to enable Proton EAC support, so those on Linux can actually play the game unhindered and without having to use sub-optimal workarounds.  As an example, while the Steam Remote Play functionality does work, there is still additional latency introduced given the encoding and decoding that have to occur on each end.  While this may be fine for life-skilling and general grinding in most cases, for higher-end fights (especially PvP), you really can't afford such latency, as it puts you at a major disadvantage.

Given that I primarily enjoy the PvP aspect of games, I'm hoping that PA will seriously consider enabling Proton EAC, as given the drawbacks of the Steam Remote Play solution, it's likely that I will *NOT* remain playing the game for the long-term if I have to rely on that.

There's some updates to the proton layer for EAC. 

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/proton

Seems like a relatively straightforward way to do it..

Still waiting come on PA, let us play on the Linux, still waiting for this, having windows on dual boot for one game is anoying.

will we also get TempleOs support?

Just Do It!