Easy Anti-Cheat
Ranked 2 of 3 anti-cheats by recommenders
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.
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.
33 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 24
- approval share
- 27%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works on Linux
“Linux has working EAC. Any software not working on Linux is a Policy decision by the seller”
Comment from 3 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet” “EAC - who is a major player in this field producing generic solutions - does support Linux”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine” “I have 100% solid, personal knowledge that Easy Anti Cheat can work on Linux.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux” - Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton”
- Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10”
Strong anti-cheat with few exploits
“They also have very few cheaters, and employ behavior-based detection as their first line.”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 in “Gaming on Linux without cheating” “I have yet to come across an anti cheat driver of the big publishers being exploited”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton” “integrated along with a proper strong anticheat like EAC”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?” - Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Misleading Linux support claims
“Those seem a bit misleading if the anticheat encompasses the entire operating system”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “Gaming on Linux without cheating” “the EAC marketing or documentation is a bit unclear/misleading around this issue”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10” “Easy Anti cheat works as a software but doesn't work as an anti cheat system.”
Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10” - Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it”
Weak protection on Linux
“by doing so you're disabling a number of security features since you're making the anti-cheat run entirely in userspace”
Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10” “previous EAC and all other Linux AC have been completely useless”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought” “EAC and other anti cheat offer basically no protection on Linux”
Comment from 1 Sep 2026 in “Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10” - Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”
Easy to bypass
“Rumor has it that the Windows version is already fairly trivial to bypass.”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux” “the Linux version is much, much easier to bypass”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”
Other anti-cheats people recommend
The two most recommended other anti-cheats, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riot Vanguard anti-cheat | 23 | 29 | 44% | 10 | — | — |
| Easy Anti-CheatThis page | 9 | 24 | 27% | 7 | — | — |
| Riot Vanguard | 8 | 10 | 44% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
36 of the 38 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“previous EAC and all other Linux AC have been completely useless”
“Wow, that sounds absolutely terrible.”
“Those seem a bit misleading if the anticheat encompasses the entire operating system”
“They also have very few cheaters, and employ behavior-based detection as their first line.”
“you only have two closed source components (EAC and the game itself)”
“I really hope they don't force current EAC games to upgrade.”
“the EAC marketing or documentation is a bit unclear/misleading around this issue”
“EAC and other anti cheat offer basically no protection on Linux”
“EAC is functionally useless on Linux”
“by doing so you're disabling a number of security features since you're making the anti-cheat run entirely in userspace”
“that fully supports Linux”
“it's not effective on any system”
“Easy Anti cheat works as a software but doesn't work as an anti cheat system.”
“integrated along with a proper strong anticheat like EAC”
“then EAC isn't helping here”
“Kernel level anti-cheat is serving a similar function to something like EAC these days, which basically just keeps the lazy people out.”
“It's invasive, it's an endless arms race, and it runs ring 0 code on your machine.”
“I used to dread seeing the EAC splash because it inevitably meant frequent crashes on windows”
“So when are we nixing Widevine, EasyAC, carrier locks on phones, and TEEs that the user can't look into?”
“eac doesnt seem to stop cheaters at all”
“they could have used EAC for free”
“some of my games runs on Easy Anti-Cheat”
“if your product doesn't update its EAC bits regularly then it may as well not use EAC at all”
“Rumor has it that the Windows version is already fairly trivial to bypass.”
“the Linux version is much, much easier to bypass”
“I have 100% solid, personal knowledge that Easy Anti Cheat can work on Linux.”
“Linux has working EAC. Any software not working on Linux is a Policy decision by the seller”
“support doesn't mean full features”
“This does not mean it supports the full feature set as from EAC on Windows.”
“my hunch is that EAC was hastily slapped on very, very late in the process”
“The user-level cheats are extremely bad.”
“the user-level EAC works just fine”
“I have yet to come across an anti cheat driver of the big publishers being exploited”
“EAC - who is a major player in this field producing generic solutions - does support Linux”
“userspace ACs that work well and also run in userspace”
“It doesn't support it with KLA.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.