The Epic Games Store launcher is to run natively on Linux. There is no date, and Linux is not yet included in the preview of the new client.
  • VonReposti@feddit.dk
    5·
    3 months ago

    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

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
        1·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • motruck@lemmy.zip
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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)

  • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        2·
        3 months ago

        EAC can work on linux already. Dev just choose not to opt in to it because I think it offer less anticheat protection