In October, Epic Video games mentioned that it was “investigating” making Fortnite appropriate with Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS. On the time, Epic Video games Launcher was in preview, however SteamOS was not particularly listed as a supported distro. Now, Communications Director Jake Jones has confirmed SteamOS compatibility, together with a handful of different distros, to GamingOnLinux. In response to a query in regards to the AppImage being changed with Debian / Ubuntu .deb downloads, Jones mentioned:
“The brand new Epic Video games Launcher remains to be in Preview and we plan to help as many Linux distributions as doable, together with Fedora, SteamOS, Cachy, Omarchy, and extra. We’re testing and evaluating packaging codecs for distribution, and we’ll restore AppImage this month.”
That doesn’t essentially imply Fortnite will come to SteamOS. Straightforward Anti-Cheat (EAC) Linux v2 help nonetheless stays an open query. When it introduced its work to carry Fortnite to Linux, the corporate mentioned that the Steam Deck “doesn’t help the required options for our EAC v2 answer, however we’re actively speaking with Valve and hope to help it sooner or later.”