Fortnite is finally coming to Linux thanks to Epic rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat, though Steam Deck support is still in the wind

Epic have announced that they're rebuilding their Easy Anti-Cheat software in order to get their flagship battle royale Fortnite running on Linux configurations, after years of fretting that they don't think they'd be able to shut down cheaters operating across all the associated kernel configurations. It won't support Steam Deck for the foreseeable, mind. The newly penguin-friendly edition of EAC is called EAC Linux v2. "Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) has supported native Linux game clients since 2014," Epic explain in a blog post . "In 2021, we added support for running Windows game builds on Linux via Wine/Proton.