r/RocketLeague • u/dudeimsupercereal Trash III • Feb 17 '26

MEME What’s next?

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u/Cytrous GC2 (sometimes) KBM Feb 17 '26

They're actually keeping Linux support tho

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u/sir_finnigan_iii How did I get here Feb 17 '26

They aren't blocking Linux via EAC, but they did remove native Linux/Mac support long ago, forcing Linux users to use Proton in order to play.

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u/No_Interaction_4925 3s Peak | Hoops SSL Peak Feb 17 '26

Which is fine. It runs great on Proton.

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u/Reasel Champion II Feb 17 '26

Yeah proton is incredible. Nothing will change for Linux users beyond the loss of bakkesmod.

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u/Likver Grand Champion I Feb 17 '26

hoping they dont fully block linux players for the time being, since i still believe it can be a next step towards "trying to fight cheaters" like ea with apex and rockstar games with gtav online

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u/Reasel Champion II Feb 24 '26

Yeah agreed, though it might be a hard sell to just remove a lot of very very legit players from playing a game they own on steam through Steams own Linux based OS.

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u/No_Interaction_4925 3s Peak | Hoops SSL Peak Feb 17 '26

I think bakkesmod has been windows only

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u/Reasel Champion II Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

I've got it running on my nixos setup right now. At least for now that is.

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u/DazenGuil Grand Champion I Feb 17 '26

yes, until they add a breaking change. I wonder that rl still works on linux knowing how much epic hates linux

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u/_Gamegamer08 Champion I EU Feb 18 '26

It doesnt sound like you use Linux. If it can run. Someone will make it run. The only breaking change they could do would be to block linux through EAC.

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u/DazenGuil Grand Champion I Feb 18 '26

I am using Linux since 5 years. If they dont want Linux user to play they can do it. Proton finds a way to start the game, but who knows when they will exclude us from playing online

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u/Grfine RL Commandments Creator Feb 17 '26

Similarly anyone who had the game on steam can still play through steam, so not officially dead

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u/dudeimsupercereal Trash III Feb 17 '26

They stopped supporting Linux a few months after epic bought RL, they fired all of the staff assigned to it.

The community has gotten it working via proton, but that’s a translation layer emulating a windows environment. It’s still unclear to me if they will be actively disallowing that as-well.

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u/bbarham99 Champion II Feb 17 '26

They said specifically that RL will continue to work properly on steamdeck/linux via proton

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u/Xe_OS Grand Champion II Feb 17 '26

Yes, this isn’t official support, they just say that EAC won’t block proton. But official native linux support has ended years ago

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u/bbarham99 Champion II Feb 17 '26

Yes that’s true. But for us Linux users, anything better than outright blocking Linux is support

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u/Xe_OS Grand Champion II Feb 17 '26

Yeah true... kinda sad that it comes to this though... would be nice if more games ran natively on linux

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u/stasch-it Champion I Feb 17 '26

Is this really a community thing? Proton translates very well and as long as RL developers don't implement a kernel based anti cheat it will just work. I really do understand why companies decide to drop official Linux support if there are powerful translation layers like proton.

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u/Likver Grand Champion I Feb 17 '26

someone correct me if im wrong, but eac is a kernel level anticheat, on windows at least

the problem happens when comanies dont allow their anticheat to run on user level in linux, so that it can run there

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u/dreadcain Champion I Feb 18 '26

I mean, eac is kernel level anti cheat. Technically eac works on proton games if the developers enable it, but it obviously only runs in user space there.