I’m not a Gamer but I did manage to come across this talking about Microsoft’s Kernel Changes do to the Crowdstrike advertisement for Linux campaign
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Indeed. I saw the NotebookCheck article yesterday and I’m also personally on the fence about this effort from Microsoft. It might develop into something that will also benefit us, but I think people should wait and see what these efforts will develop into. At the moment, these efforts seem to be in the “figuring out stuff” phase still.
At the same time, I want to say something that will probably roughen some gamer feathers: games that don’t work on Linux because of anti-cheat are games that also have a notorious reputation due to how toxic the community is, how bollocks the game is and/or are live service games that are designed to squeeze your enjoyment out of them for higher ranks or better loot. Currently, ProtonDB reports that 50% of all Steam games work, to some degree, on Linux. Out of those 50%, there are better games deserving your attention, money and playtime.
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This mostly echoes my original thoughts when the wider world started getting excited for the future of Linux gaming following crowdstrike, so I can’t say I’m surprised.
Similarly to as @winnyace has said, for myself the games that have the most aggressive anticheat implementations aren’t the kind of games I play anyway, so it was largely moot for me regardless.
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Single-player and LAN games FTW! 
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Online multiplayer is great too. I enjoy playing Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 or osu!, which are better being played against other people, but making them your only source when it comes to gaming is not gonna be good in the long run. I did it and I hated it and it seems I wasn’t the only person. Sometimes, it is nice to just enjoy a game, without worrying about ELO/MMR, your K/D ratio or how much pp you got.
For me, competitive games versus/with people I don’t personally know suck the joy out of games almost completely. It’s why for LoL, I played only 6 seasons of ranked. For the 1st one (S2) I ended in Silver and the next 5 ended in Gold, but by the 3rd I was only playing for the Victorious skin, then stopped for the rest of the season.
Then they went and included rank decay. 
This punishes people for having a life outside of playing their game. I imagine if I was still on Windows and playing LoL, this thing would send me to hell — not Elo hell, though. I’d probably be Platinum or Emerald by now if I played ranked from Season 2 to now.
If there was ever a clear statement that ranked in any game is not to have fun, rank decay would be it.
Anyway, from Season 7 to 11 it was just TFT, normal drafts, URF, and other actually fun stuff.
PS: I do sometimes miss destroying people with my Quinn top/mid or zooming across the whole map in less than 10 seconds. Quinn backdoors are insane! Good times. 
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I don’t enjoy competitive games that much anymore as well, but I enjoy sometimes playing them, mostly because they’re easy to play with friends and they can be fun if you don’t treat them seriously. I personally believe that they shouldn’t be the only thing someone plays, though.
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