Games with anti-virus on Linux

[scorpion7slayer]

I am aware that games with an anti-virus are not available linux but for a distro that wants to look like windows I know that it is complicated to be able to make them work because the kernel is different and that windows and more widespread and popular but if this is possible you could do it

[Anduin2017]

For the most challenging cases—such as applications that are truly too difficult to run on Linux—I always recommend using a virtual machine. For example, I recently purchased an Oculus Quest 2, and its Meta Quest Link app only supports Windows. This was very frustrating for me, especially since it also seems to install drivers for the Quest itself. Clearly, doing this on Linux is practically impossible, so using a virtual machine turned out to be the smarter choice.

Modern virtual machines make it easy to passthrough USB or even PCIe devices. My computer has both an Intel integrated GPU and an Nvidia discrete GPU, and I often passthrough the Nvidia GPU to Windows in order to run certain games that are exclusive to Windows.

As for anti-cheat mechanisms—that is indeed an issue. But considering that Microsoft is now also promoting VBS (Virtualization-Based Security), which essentially runs Windows inside a hypervisor even on bare metal, a typical Windows installation is already virtualized to some degree. This makes my KVM-based Windows VM virtually indistinguishable from a physical Windows environment. In fact, the very concept of whether Windows is running in a VM is becoming increasingly blurred. I've used this setup for a long time and haven’t encountered any problems. Even features like virtual TPM and Windows Hello work flawlessly.

When you're left with no better option, decisively choose to run certain software inside a virtual machine.

[Anduin2017]

See: https://docs.anduinos.com/Virtualization/Windows.html