Finally I can say: “I purposefully do not install the Epic store” instead of “Unfortunately, I can’t install Epic store”
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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Huh... I thought:
Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends.
Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today
Tim Sweeney, 2018
In 2018 windows 10 was still going to be viable for years to come and windows 11 didn't exist and valve hadn't made proton awesome with Linux and less than 2% of gamers used Linux.
By the end of 2027, not supporting Linux will actually cost you them a noticeable amount of money.
Proton definitely was awesome with Linux. In '18 my gaming rig was fully converted to Linux for more than a year and the only problems I had was Easy Anti-Cheat (Epic owned) and any Epic games. The rest worked smoothly.
I'm torn. It's a pretty good thing that they feel compelled to do this, and I will have acces to all the free shit I claimed.
But I am just past the stage of really wanting this.
The one Epic game of mine that won't play on Linux in Heroic is Fortnite. So you've had the option for a few years.
I have my doubts that EAC will work on Linux, and if it did, I wonder how many of us would accept their spyware/malware on our machines.
EAC can work on linux already. Dev just choose not to opt in to it because I think it offer less anticheat protection
It does offer less protection. U dont have kernel access, ring 0 how it s called on windows. Apex was availlable under linux and cheater start identifying their system as linux so the protection were less agressive. At the end apex drop the support
Use it, like it, or hate it, I don't know why you wouldn't be in favor of almost everything getting Linux support.
Yea, I think they're grasping at straws and doing anything that they can to get more people to use Epic.
Regardless of whether or not you play their games. This is a sign for how steam is forcing other's hands. It is a good thing.
Hopefully his is a sign of linux becoming inevitable. Once all of gaming is aware of Linux and provides binaries and clients for linux, maybe the business world will catch up and go "maybe we need to provide linux as a default on the hardware we sell". That's when things will swing around.
If personal computing still exists by then.
Does Epic have anything that's even remotely close to the equivalent of Proton? Or is it going to be up to the user to then turn around and configure their games through Wine, rendering the whole idea of the "launcher" completely pointless.
Steams popularity on Linux isn't because it has a launcher for it. It's got a point-and-click way for a normal (non-techie) gamer to play their Windows games on Linux.
Okay but the launcher running means nothing if theres no translation layer management for the user. What are they gonna just use wine? Highly doubt Epic can compete with Steam's Proton (which also uses wine)
Why wouldnt they just use Proton..?
Perhaps Fortnite too?🤔