# Easy Anti-Cheat

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/easy-anti-cheat/

6 people recommended Easy Anti-Cheat in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 23 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. Game developers use it to keep cheaters out, and people say it works on Linux. Critics say its protection there is weak and its Linux support is often overstated.

Summary written by Claude from the comments below.

## What people warn about

- Misleading Linux support claims (4 comments in the sample): "Those seem a bit misleading if the anticheat encompasses the entire operating system" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100546)) "the EAC marketing or documentation is a bit unclear/misleading around this issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564816)) "Easy Anti cheat works as a software but doesn't work as an anti cheat system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523483))
- Weak protection on Linux (4 comments in the sample): "by doing so you're disabling a number of security features since you're making the anti-cheat run entirely in userspace" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524358)) "previous EAC and all other Linux AC have been completely useless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207233)) "EAC and other anti cheat offer basically no protection on Linux" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524750))
- Easy to bypass (1 comment in the sample): "Rumor has it that the Windows version is already fairly trivial to bypass." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799119))

## Why people recommend it

- Works on Linux (5 comments in the sample): "Linux has working EAC.  Any software not working on Linux is a Policy decision by the seller" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472339)) "EAC - who is a major player in this field producing generic solutions - does support Linux" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906079)) "I have 100% solid, personal knowledge that Easy Anti Cheat can work on Linux." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798540))
- Strong anti-cheat with few exploits (3 comments in the sample): "They also have very few cheaters, and employ behavior-based detection as their first line." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092202)) "integrated along with a proper strong anticheat like EAC" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346763)) "userspace ACs that work well and also run in userspace" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905512))

## Other anti-cheats people recommend

- [Riot Vanguard anti-cheat](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vanguard/): 19 recommend, 4 mixed, 28 criticize
- [Riot Vanguard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/riot-vanguard/): 5 recommend, 2 mixed, 9 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Easy Anti-Cheat", https://hackerapproved.com/p/easy-anti-cheat/ (6 recommend, 1 mixed, 23 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.