Fortnite devs have chosen to actively not support Linux. Meaning, they have made sure it doesn't work on Linux, on purpose. It will never work on Linux because they want it not to work on it.
Dual boot, or no Fortnite.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Yea. They are dicks.
For Epic Games use Heroic.
For Fortnite use... well, you are pretty much out of luck. A Windows VM with GPU pass-thru maybe?
Kernel level anticheat can detect when they're in VMs
Tried that this weekend. Did not work. Thanks though.
EAC is the problem. It's not that the game can't run, it's that you'll be blocked from connecting to any servers.
I totally understand. Just wondering if there is something else out there that I can't find with searches.
Let's say that you were able to find a way. Epic could then ban your son's account for suspected cheating/hacking.
It's not possible (I tried like you) to get further than the party selection screen. Matchmaking kills the game instantly. When I contacted Epic support, I was politely warned that their system would very likely classify my attempts to run on Linux as a bannable offense.
Ge force it is
The lag makes GFN playable, but I'm only able to laugh and make call-outs to my team. it's better than nothing, but it is very disappointing to press the emote key and hear it play on my wife's (Windows) PC in the same room before I even hear it.
But in a pinch, GFN connects you with friends.
I have better ping than my son in the next room. So I dunno.
You might be looking at the ping in-game, which is only showing your ping to Epic servers from the GfN rig. Your round trip to the rig itself is a factor, as well as the latency to encode the frames before streaming to you.
Still, if its playable for you, that's awesome.
Dual boot.
Strip Windows down and make it “Fortnite OS”
This is the only way. Use something like privacy.sexy or similar tools to remove all bloatware, phone home and auto update cruds.
https://lutris.net/games/fortnite/
did you read this?
Infected with kernel level anticheat
I like that they don't bother being gentle about it. I'd have gone further and called the publishers drooling idiots but lutris probably can't get away with that lol
Yes. But I'm wondering if there is a better way.
I guess the site could have been more clear about it, so let me help you read it:
unsupported on Linux
Will this work on Linux? No, it won't.
It does. But only through GE Force Now and cloud gaming. It doesn't work as Linux native.
GE Force Now (and other cloud gaming) is not Linux.
When playing a game through geforce now it runs on remote servers in NVIDIA’s data centers and is streamed to you as video, with your input sent back to those servers. The game itself is running in a windows VM.
I still run it through Mint
Right, but you're basically streaming a video and sending your keystrokes to the cloud to be executed remotely. The game itself is running on a Windows VM on a server.
And when you do it on steam you are streaming it through a Linux server on a Windows or Mac machine. The Kernal is still the Kernal and my Kernal is Linux.
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
If multiplaer is important to you .
https://www.protondb.com/
For general Fuck Ups stuff.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Mostly helpflul stuff if you know your way around.
Windows or Console is only way. Until the devs allow it on other OS.
Create a windows to go install on a USB to NVMe caddy, use something like nano11 and set the BIOS to boot off the NVMe. Whenever the kiddo wants to play fortnite, just plug the device and reboot
This is to avoid windows overwriting your EFI partition and nuking your bootloader at random times, the reason I stopped dual booting after win 8.1
I have never done this. Do you have a good source for a guide or walkthrough to look over before I attempt it?
Sorry, I jumped ship before that feature was a thing. I think it's exclusive to "pro" win10 but I remember a relative using it. Windows 2 go or something like that was the name.
Anyway, happy new year, and hope you can figure it out!