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
    19·
    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

  • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    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
      5·
      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
        6·
        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

        • bigmamoth@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          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

    • yaroto98@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yea, I think they’re grasping at straws and doing anything that they can to get more people to use Epic.

  • motruck@lemmy.zip
    10·
    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.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    5·
    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.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    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.