In my mind these two worlds don't have to be incompatible with each other, I am fully aware of the issues with cheating in competitive online gaming and am ready to give up some freedoms to improve the quality of my experience, but I believe we can do this still using Linux clients.
I would not have an issue with having a "gaming kernel" installed that I can reboot to when I want to game, one that gives EAC and other similar softwares access to my hardware so they can do their jobs, I don't love it, but I'm ready to make that sacrifice because I have experienced gaming with rampant cheating.
The problem is nobody is providing that option, and game developers are instead actively excluding Linux as a target platform entirely, e.g. Apex Legends, a game that ran well on Linux until October 2024 when Respawn decided to actively block it from joining online matches by toggling a flag in EAC.
I want to get off Micro$lops wild ride please.