Curious take, Rust has about 137k users online (24h peak via steam charts rn atleast). Dev claims 0.01% of users play on Linux. That’s 13-14 players. If even a single person decides to cheat or run Linux to cheat the amount of “cheaters on Linux” would indeed “dramatically increase”. But that’s a really bad way to tell the narrative.
I don’t really care, i haven’t played rust in years and as others mentioned there’s way to much games i can play instead. Ive been playing a lot of The Finals recently and I’ve had a blast. They have Proton support and anti-cheat and atleast publicly say that they do want to continue supporting Linux.
If not supporting Linux is a business/economical decision just say so. This is a really bad way to discuss the situation and an attempt to frame linux players as cheaters. If you have 14 players total on Linux out of a total 100k then they most likely aren’t the problem.
Jesus i worked at exactly this kind of project once. The only other dev was also very hostile and protective of this position. He did not want me there in the slightest. Took about 6 months before we cancelled the contract since this dude was just actively harrassing me in Teams DMs on the daily and he just ignored all my concerns regarding maintainability since “he could understand the code” and i was probably just “not experienced enough”.
Don’t downplay what this does to your mental health. 5 years of workplaces like this and I’m now starting to see a therapist due to exhaustion disorder symptoms in my goddamn 20s. Take care our there!