Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 61
Much as Tim Sweeny has got a lot bad press for this he's got the right of it.
Enabling linux support and anti cheat is fine if you're willing to accept that cheating can still happen, but is low consequence.
But there's nothing stopping you from writing your own linux kernel patch and installing that on a steam deck. If you can't trust the kernel, you can't trust anything that depends on the kernel. For something like fortnite there's a huge financial incentive to cheat, Destiny isn't as bad, but it's still potentially game breaking.
For Eldenring you can mod the game on PC anyway, they just don't let you play online, so they're willing to accept some level of risk, Apex legends have their own risk tolerance.
Windows (and the consoles) also have the same problem but writing and deploying a kernel patch for Windows or a console is much harder, and then it's a Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo problem, not such much an application problem.
One would assume you can still stream otherwise unsupported games from your Windows PC to a Steam Deck, or install windows on it, and run the games that way.