Comment by jkahrs595
6 days ago
Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.
6 days ago
Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.
Roblox has a long history of not supporting Linux, and the game was rendered unplayable for many years. In 2022 it became possible following some Wine patches, but then they began to implement a kernel-level anticheat. Roblox initially committed to keeping Wine working but suddenly went back on that and blocked it without notice. Today, the last remaining way is through running the Android version of the game through an Android container or emulator. The TFA is about stopping this exact method of running the game though...
This isn't true. Roblox never had and does not have a kernel anti-cheat.
My mistake, I just assumed their Byfron anti-cheat is kernel level because that's the most common reason why anticheats take issue with Wine. If their anti-cheat operates entirely in usermode, then their decision to block Wine is even more baffling to me.
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The TFA explains that it is up to game to decide if they want to use attestation.
Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.
Let me rephrase, it doesn’t actively oppose Linux like Fortnite does. Roblox absolutely can run on Linux, even though it’s not officially supported.
Fortnite doesn't actively oppose Linux, compared to Roblox cheating which keeps a lot of logic on the server, cheating on Fortnite on the client has a more bigger impact.
Unfortunately there's no way to properly ship a kernel level anti-cheat on Linux right now and none of the mainstream distros ship with any kind of attestation or OS verification out the box like Android does.
SteamOS could change it here though, we'll see. I don't have much hope given the thing doesn't even use Secure Boot by default.
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Doesn't roblox use an anticheat that prevents the game client from running on linux? I thought nowadays the way to "run roblox on linux" involved using an android emulator.
Native Roblox has blocked Linux for 3 years, and games on it (especially PvP ones) can and do require Android remote attestation which Sober doesn't implement. It wouldn't surprise me if Graphene can't play those games as well.
Roblox is a platform. Fortnite is still primarily one game.
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Use Sober
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I'd assume Fortnite Creative
They don't officially support Linux, but they allow the community to continue playing using Sober. Honestly it's probably better that way
They're 60% of the North American game's industry revenue growth. Their rival is negative stock market sentiment. They need to pull out all the stops to prove growth.
Fortnite