Their post is a bunch of PR hidden by funnyspeak

I disagree, I think they said pretty plainly that they rely on security by obscurity, which is fundamentally at odds with an open platform that gives you control over your hardware. They're not wrong, they can take their shitty anti-cheat arms race and shove it.

How are they ditching LoL on Linux if they've never officially supported it in the first place?

It's not really necessary on a Mac though, at least from what I understood.

To be fair, I think the backdoors they're referring to would be ones meant to allow Linux users to play.

But with Riot being owned by a Chinese company, I suspect there are plenty of backdoors to go around.

That's pretty much the only reasonable explanation at this point. If they were afraid of people finding errors it would be beneficial to allow more players to see what's the program doing. Riot basically confirming they just want to run spyware on SpywareOS.

I get your point, but that is only 50% of the article. 800 players simply don't justify the effort of porting everything to Linux and risk more cheaters. Issues with cheaters affect the entire playerbase, not just those 800.

I'd like more Linux compatibility in large games as much as the next guy, but I get the justification not to do it.

According to the original Riot post, 1 in 15 games has a cheater, and in some regions it's 1 in 5 games.

But valorant has the same kernel anticheat, and has rampant cheating. So I don't think the new anticheat will actually help.

Even with premium Linux support, who in their right mind would run that shit with kernel access

It's probably because WoW isn't as competitive as LoL or Valorant, so Riot's games need to be more aggressive in figuring whether someone is cheating or not. A more apt comparison would be with Valve's Dota2 and Counter Strike

I want to spread the love I have with Linux. But its hard when friends love League of Legends