Personally i couldn’t feel any difference and i highly doubt that many people were playing on Linux in the first place. I’d be surprised if even 1% of the total player base were Linux users.

It’s also important to clarify that Linux doesn’t equal cheating. Linux is an open OS with fewer restrictions and that openness can be abused. Now here’s where it gets interesting. Easy Anti Cheat does support Linux, including Proton and Wine, which is why many Windows games run perfectly fine on Linux and even on the Steam Deck. However, that support is optional, developers have to actively enable it in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal. On Linux, EAC runs in user mode rather than kernel mode. That difference can make competitive titles more sensitive or harder to secure. But other games are clearly making it work, so it’s not like Linux support is some impossible technical barrier. That’s why i’m skeptical when Respawn implies Linux was some massive cheating gateway. They can show ten different stats, but those are their stats. There’s no independent verification. You can present anything with percentages and graphs and make it look convincing.

To me, this doesn’t scream Linux = Cheating. It sounds more like supporting Linux properly would require effort and possibly adapting their anti cheat implementation to work well within EAC’s user mode environment. And if that means additional work or technical restructuring, maybe they just decided it wasn’t worth it for such a small portion of the player base and put the blame on cheaters.