![]() Continuing to build upon the work started with another open source tool, Legendary, which hooks into the Epic Games. Work on Heroic Games Launcher, the open source Linux alternative to the Epic Games Store continues rapid improvements with a huge new release out now. Sweeney hailed the Steam Deck as an “ amazing move by Valve” when it was first announced, calling it “an open platform where users are free to install software their choosing - including Windows and other stores. The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul. When contacted for comment by The Verge, Sweeney described Linux as “a terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.” Asked whether it would be possible to enable compatibility just for SteamOS, he said “Linux is a small market already and if you subdivide it by blessed kernel versions then it’s even smaller.” It may not be worth Epic’s while to put in the work on security for what will be a comparatively tiny audience, at least at first.īesides, it’s not like Steam Deck owners won’t be able to play Fortnite at all - there’s always the option of installing Windows on the machine. With regard to anti-cheat on the Linux platform supporting custom kernels and the threat model to a game of Fortnite's size, YES THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!- Tim Sweeney February 7, 2022
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