Please do it bungie. I’m interested in the game, but switching back to windows will never be an option for me. A lot of people on linux now and it’s only going to keep increasing with Steam Machines and a future Steam Deck 2.

Upvoting as a veteran Destiny player that moved to CachyOS late last year. I will be installing a second drive with windows only for Marathon, which I wish I didn’t have to do. I have several friends who’ve also moved to Linux, and they were excited for Marathon. When I told them Marathon would not support Linux (unlike ARC) they all said “fine, I’ll skip it.” I am just one person with my own friend group, but locking out Linux users is introducing an artificial barrier for likely a few thousand players. Maybe that’s a drop in the bucket for Bungie, but Marathon is a chance to reintroduce Bungie’s style of shooter to a new generation. A single new player today can become a passionate player in a year that brings in more players, Windows and Linux alike. Why lock people out when other companies have shown Linux can be supported and it doesn’t have to mean the game becomes cheater central?

Seconding this. I basically boycott any bungie product that isn't called halo because of the horrible things they've said about Linux and Linux users, but that would change in a heartbeat if they actually did literally anything to support Linux in any capacity. It's their loss really, Linux is the future for gaming as has been proven now for like years. Linux only gets better and better, the marketshare only gets bigger and bigger (inb4 winblows glazers cite muh sMaLl UsErBaSe) and winblows only continues to get shittier and shittier. Its growth is inevitable. I've used cachy and endeavouros and nothing but for more than a year at this point and I'm never looking back, has been an amazing and mostly tweak and bug free experience so far. I've even put my tech illiterate friends and family on various distributions and they've had no complaints either. Time for them to get with the times I think along with every other AAA developer insisting we use a shitty AI slop spyware OS.

only a large enough protest will ever result in change

Bungie will never do it thinking it will bring in cheaters. The irony is that their anticheat is quite literally dogshit and they had already used a linux based version of their game (destiny 2 on stadia) that they even touted as the version of the game that the internal developers used to test the game (but i assume mostly because of the easiness of cloud gaming vs because it was on linux). Marathon is already very likely going to fail and I for one will not be supporting not because i need it to be on linux (i have both a win 11 machine and my own steam machine) but because they refuse to follow where the industry is going (aka the rise of linux in portable handhelds and the future steam machine) and instead of finding a way to innovate thier anticheat, they make outdated comments about linux and think their current structure on windows actually works