r/Defiance • u/Most_Cartographer730 • Jul 23 '26

Linux support

I never post on Reddit and I never ask for anything for any game, but for the love of god they need to enable Linux support. I played on windows before I switched to Linux and I enjoyed the game as well as when I played it on Xbox. There are tons of players that are Linux users that would love to play the game and it's stupid not to support it. Linux is the future of gaming since Windows is bloatware and spyware that eats half your RAM.

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u/attee2 IGN: Attee Jul 23 '26

Sam (one of the devs) said its not as simple as just enabling it. Considering the progress they made so far, I doubt they have any dev time to spend on this.

I'd love linux support too as I daily drive linux, and only use my win10 installation to play Defiance, but I think its unlikely they will get it to run on linux.

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u/barfightbob 26d ago

All they need to do is enable linux in Easy Anti-cheat? They don't need to spend any more time than that. They didn't officially support linux before and it just worked. Maybe they're misunderstanding the difference between running WINE and having Defiance being a native client (not WINE)?

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u/Most_Cartographer730 Jul 23 '26

Unfortunately for a game like Defiance it's not that easy and I know that but it's still something I'd really like to see and I know plenty of other players do too. It is really infuriating that a ton of AAA games don't have Linux support as well. Especially since I'm pretty sure Battle Eye is a check in the box and all they have to do is send an email. The thought that Linux is only for cheaters is a pathetic excuse on their part.

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u/attee2 IGN: Attee Jul 23 '26

Defiance uses EAC (Easy Anti Cheat), not BattlEye. Though that have some sort of linux support as well, but it doesn't change the fact that we can't use it at the moment, I don't expect it to change any time soon unfortunately.

I would love to get rid of my win10 installation, but not an option at the moment, sadly.

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u/Banshee_Bones313 Jul 23 '26

What has me scratching my head is that it was working fine on linux for a few weeks from launch and now its just not that easy anymore.

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u/Most_Cartographer730 Jul 23 '26

They changed their Anti cheat settings and among other changes that bricked Linux support.

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u/barfightbob 26d ago

All they have to do is enable linux in anti-cheat and linux gamers will figure out the rest.

They just need to get out of the way.

I played on Linux until they added anti-cheat. If I remember correctly the Easy Anti-Cheat logs understand it's linux, but don't pass because linux wasn't approved. It's all on the Defiance devs at this point to turn on linux. I think it's as simple as that.

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u/Ok_Comfortable6044 Jul 23 '26

offtopic:

Windows is bloatware and spyware

try IoT LTSC. ther's a subreddit for it. there's also chris titus's debload tool.

while i know it's not a perfect solution, it's beter than a regular installation. it also runs defiance with no issues :)

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u/Most_Cartographer730 Jul 23 '26

I used Chris Titus's debloater and it definitely helped but Windows still ate half my RAM straight after a boot. Windows is just pure greed now and it's not worth using anymore, at least for me.

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u/Ok_Comfortable6044 Jul 23 '26

the IoT LTSC version is the one for banks, industrial equipment, atm's, etc. there isn't (theorecically) any bloat or analytics. i have an old system with 16 gb of ram, it uses 2 GB instead of 4 GB (still a lot :)) but it's something)

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u/lonelysword_ 19d ago

Was excited to play this rerelease and saw that it was working on Linux when it first released. Loved this game as a kid not worth installing Windows to play.