Fortnite is by far one of the most popular games in the history of video games, and now that they have added new game modes that are not Battle Royale, most likely many more people want to play it seeing that he has more things to do than shoot. The idea is for Fortnite to reach as many people as possible, and many people want to play it on the Steam Deck.
But it is not possible to play Fortnite on the Steam Deck as there is no dedicated version of Linux. Usually, games on Steam Deck can use Proton to convert from Windows to Linux on the fly, but Proton has problems with game anticheats that act at the Kernel level, and Fortnite is among them.
It doesn't pay Epic to make a version of Fortnite for Linux to be played on the Steam Deck
Wouldn't it be a sensible move to make a Fornite client for Linux? Not only Steam Deck users would take advantage of it, but millions of users who use Linux for their daily lives. But Tim Sweeney of Epic Games He doesn't believe it.
In their own words in The Verge, they would need more programmers because Linux is a problem for them. He further said that if there were tens of millions of users who would have a Linux system to play Fortnite, they would do so.
Sales of the Steam Dekc have not been bad at all. They have even promoted other variants of mini PCs as game consoles, such as the Asus Please Ally or the Lenovo Legion Go. But apparently the Linux public doesn't consider it broad enough to make one more version that would need its own separate maintenance team. Also, a few weeks ago they had a series of massive layoffs for having overestimated the growth of Fortnite, which is not that it has not grown, it has; but not at the level that investors expected.
