This is so funny because rust has one of the worst cheating situations and majority of their players are windows users, and theres lots of games that have anticheat that allows linux and have notably less significant cheating problems like marvel rivals. in reality rust doesn't take cheating very seriously because if they did they would have more server side software that detects illegitimate behaviour like tons of other games do successfully...... even most popular Minecraft servers have better functioning anti cheat that is completely server side than rust has while getting kernel access to your pc. its pathetic and lazy development tbh and this entire post from them reads like such extreme cope....
Is it? Major FPS game sounds like the least likely game Linux users would be playing on Linux.
Why?
I play a fair amount of multiplayer FPS and I pretty much just assume I have to boot into my Windows partition for them because of anti-cheat. The fact there are some FPS games that actually support Linux is surprising news for me, hopefully more devs start adding support.
Because they historically didn't work on Linux. Looking at shooters from 2018:
But taking it further, they're the gamer-iest games, so if you're playing one of these titles there's a high chance you're playing a lot of games, probably with friends, and each one your friend group picks up is another chance for Linux support to be poor, meaning that you're going to miss out. Obviously that doesn't apply to everyone, but it's absolutely going to reduce the number of people using Linux to play. With the Steam Deck now, this trend won't be as prevalent, especially for stuff played with controllers, but I bet you'll still see the phenomenon with AAA, multiplayer titles design for KB+M.
There was a native Linux build up until 2019. I also wouldn't really class Rust as an FPS, but that's beside the point.
Right but a Rust player is probably playing these other shooters.