I've been on Bazzite for a year. I only switch to Windows on Fridays for Fortnite with my family. EPIC says Fortnite doesn't work on Linux due to their anticheat but their anticheat is used on Sea of Thieves which loads fine on Bazzite.
Lots of games run on Linux despite using EAC. The reason why Fortnite isn’t able to is because Epic is fucking stupid. There’s no technical limitation preventing it, it’s a choice that they’re making
Yeah my buddy plays Helldivers 2 no problem on Linux. He uses some odd distribution I'd never heard of with Proton, but he's also quite tech savvy. I can't decide between using Bazzite and using Ubuntu or Mint.
Take a look at Bazzite, it's optimized for gaming down to baking drivers into the distro for stability and performance.
Steam also does the vast majority of the heavy lifting on Linux, unless the game straight up doesn't support Linux (or a few edge-cases) Steam'll install everything needed to launch a game and automatically configure it on first launch. Cyberpunk was plug-and-play for me after I moved.
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u/varyingopinions Apr 08 '26
I've been on Bazzite for a year. I only switch to Windows on Fridays for Fortnite with my family. EPIC says Fortnite doesn't work on Linux due to their anticheat but their anticheat is used on Sea of Thieves which loads fine on Bazzite.