At some point Win 10 won't be supported by microsoft anymore so the switch to 11 will be almost mandatory that's why I switched. Plus Linux just runs better on my computer (I don't know for others just my experience with it) there is some jank here and there I have to deal with but nothing particulary aggregious.

Well I may be a fool but I actually trust Gaben doing the right thing with my data since Valve isn't publicly listed like microsoft.

If you're only taking the current situation into account which is : it's impossible to play BDO on linux.

If there isn't even the choice of course the % will be low. It will in fact be 0% since nobody has the choice of switching.

All I'm saying is that Valve made it easy for devs to support EAC on linux. PA could develop a linux build but they don't even have to in that case.

So you install spyware on your machine if you think the one who made it is a "good guy"?

It may be a good time to switch to FFXIV. I'm running it flawlessly on Linux.  BDO... well can't say I didn't try. FF is a a whole different mindset but it's nevertheless a great game. It's story-driven but it's an incredible story.

+1 for linux support, been playing the game for a few years and was hoping to continue playing after I move over to linux fulltime sometime early next year.

Since there's no support in the horizon, I've quit several months ago because I don't see any reason to stick to a game that I'll have to abandon, so I slowly abandoned it in my own time.

The reason for moving over to linux rather than sticking with windows 10 till 2025 is similar reason why I quit BDO even though I'm still on windows, because in the future it's going to be very difficult to cold-turkey stop on the same day, rather than slowly stopping and transitioning over a period of months/years.

Now, why even transfer over from windows to linux? Well, the future doesn't look too good, at least for me, win 11 is clamping down on more and more spyware, and even win 10 I don't like much (I'm on win 8.1 still). There's rumours and speculation that microsoft will introduce more annoying stuff in future windows versions like monitoring whatever file you're opening and restricting it if it doesn't like it, more virtualization that will supposedly improve security, but obviously lower performance (and control).

This is a fair point, the current estimate is october 2025 but it could be further away than that or sooner. Microsoft really wants to know everything you're doing down to your filenames. This is a fact of life and something most people accept willingly or no. "If you have nothing to hide" is the same stupid counter they always use and it makes no sense. Linux is the path of the future, I agree with that but can it really? You will need nvidia and AMD's support, both are very much disinterested in the open source model.

EAC supports linux these days but whether or not this game can compile with openGL support is unknown -- probably not. Windows 10 is practically perfect if it weren't for the inherit spyware. Windows 11 is a bug infested, broken down piece of spyware garbage and it shouldn't be legal to call it an operating system.

I hope that the counter-woke culture that is trending right now also rages against the machine so that we can do away with all this adware / spyware stuff that companies force down our throat. I want to play a game like BDO without wondering if the CUDA cores isn't trying to figure out the things i like and don't like in a game and sell it to their friends. Sure, sounds crazy now but wait until this becomes the norm. It's already the norm with facebook VR stuff -- sorry, "META" VR. They use eye tracking and context awareness stuff. It's really creepy. "You stared at this character for a while, you must have liked this character". Eweee

The future will be grim unless we work together to push against these data brokers. Asking for Linux support in the games we love to play is part of the fight. Sorry for sounding gloomy, but I would also like to see BDO being supported by Linux and thought I had to illustrate the reasoning behind this. But this is more of a hope, PA might not make money out of this decision, it would most likely be a loss but the privacy advocate inside me really wishes they could push for this.

It's not quite that bad on linux, for over a decade now there's been various means of running windows applications on linux, and it's settled down now to translation, basically people overtime figured out how to translate the windows API calls like directx and other libraries into linux ones. Specifically wine/proton can translate directx calls into vulkan and linux handles that by itself because vulkan is linux native. Don't need to recompile anything really, just need to tinker around on setting things up, it'd probably be way too much of a nightmare to recompile a big game like BDO, especially without any knowledge prior.

It used to be pretty grim back in the mid/late 2000s, you could still run some windows software/games here and there, but it'd be like at a 30% performance panalty, nowadays it's roughly a few percent off. You can even get better performance than windows in some scenarios, especially if you know what you're doing with linux.

I've been thinking about it, but I don't really see an alternative, the only good one is linux. There's been many advancements, especially recently, made on linux to get things working, there's really nothing else tbh.

This is literally the only game I have to run in a VM at this point. Everything else I play works natively or with wine or proton. Please just check box for linux on EAC. You don't even have to provide linux technical support, just click the box. I want to go back to using 1 GPU rather than 2. Please check the box PA.

yeah, they won't ever enable linux support. theres actually a reason. they do use easy anti cheat, but thats more of a diversion than anything. they have another, custom, anticheat thats basically a more hardcore version of genshin impact's. its extremely shit at actually detecting cheats however its main purpose is just to silently collect user data. its just spyware essentially. its also the reason the game needs admin access, which by the way is the reason it doesn't work on linux; proton doesn't typically allow games to run as root, at least without something showing you whats what. the make changes to your pc dialogue is a lot more discreet, giving it root or superuser access however is not. basically everything in windows needs admin access so its not surprising, however on linux its more eybrow raising. hell, on windows you can't even see the process in task manager kernel level and all. linux distros typically allow easy access. oh also the devs are lazy too this is well known.