Epic Games has announced (https://bit.ly/lxf283anticheat) that bringing its Easy Anti-Cheat software to Linux, and it will be free for all game developers to implement. This will help to reduce cheating in competitive online games. It should also enable a large number of games to be made available in Linux.
Valve’s Proton tool, which is based on Wine and enables Windows games to run in Linux, would often not work with some of the most popular games due to anti-cheat software not being available in Linux. However, as Epic explains, “Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.”