gamescope-session VS AreWeAntiCheatYet

I'm trying out gamescope on my laptop, and I came across ChimeraOS's fork of it. I'm not sure why I would choose one over the other. ChimeraOS mentions something about "session switch", but I'm not sure what that's about.

I did a little digging and found this: gamescope-session

gamescope-session

You’re not alone, it always felt a bit ‘dirty’ having to keep windows on my devices just for gaming. I had no idea how far Linux gaming had come along over the years until the steam deck. Now I’ve removed windows from everything and run an arch-based Linux install (I typically like Manjaro to avoid starting from complete bare-metal). Check out this to (easily) run some of the best features from steam os on any distribution as well -> https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session

I am using this: https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session With this AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gamescope-session-git

with this or you will get an Steam update error.

If you want to try: https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session

I only really play single player, but I have run into this too. This is a great resource to keep track of progress - https://areweanticheatyet.com/

It varies by game. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ is an interesting resource for that because they also track announcements by developers about whether or not linux support is eventually planned.

AFAIK the games that don't work are more modern, competetive games that use Anticheat. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ is a good resource to see the status of your game.

It is game by game basis. Use this guide to see if the game you play is supported or not.

The only caveat to that is online games with anti-cheat. EAC and BattlEye both support Linux but requires studios to tick a box, many of which refuse. Any kernel-layer AC that doesn't have a userspace component will not run on Linux. Can see a list of games and their AC support here.

> except Multiplayer online games

That's no longer the case. I'd say about now, there are more multiplayer games that you can play, as opposed to ones you can't play.

See: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ as reference, but it's not very up-to-date, so https://www.protondb.com/ would probably be a better reference.

Only listed the 'bigger' ones, but you have a rather full list here if you want to check your favorite games: arwianticheatyet.com

Source: AreWeAntiCheatYet

Nope, just works. There are some games that use invasive kernel-level anticheat that wont work as Linux sensibly blocks anything that shouldn't be messing with the kernel, but I'm not personally interested in those games anyway. EAC and Battleye both support Linux, but requires devs to tick a box, which there's several that can't be bothered.