According to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, the famous battle-royale game will not be updated to work on SteamOS, thus owners of the future Valve Steam Deck would have to install Windows to play it.
NO Fortnite On Steam Deck
Sweeney claimed in a series of tweets that the studio isn't confident in its abilities to tackle cheating in Fortnite when the game is run on custom kernel configurations.
Even though Fortnite isn't available on Steam, Sweeney's statements rule out a Linux version that could operate on the Steam Deck.
The Steam Deck runs Valve's SteamOS, which is based on Linux, and employs Proton, a compatibility layer that allows Steam games written for Windows to run on it.
Steam Deck and Anti-cheat software
Epic has made its anti-cheat software, Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC), compatible with Linux and Proton, so game creators who use it should have no problems getting their games to operate on the Steam Deck.
For the time being, Epic Games will not be one of them, at least not with Fortnite.
Linux, according to Sweeney, is “a terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.”
“Linux is a small market already and if you subdivide it by blessed kernel versions then it’s even smaller.” he remarked when asked if it would be possible to enable compatibility simply for SteamOS.
At initially, it might not be worth Epic's time to invest on security for what will be a relatively small audience.
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