No timeline for the update's release as yet

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Epic have announced that they're rebuilding their Easy Anti-Cheat software in order to get their flagship battle royale Fortnite running on Linux, after years of fretting that they don't think they'd be able to shut down cheaters operating across all the associated kernel configurations. It won't support Steam Deck for the foreseeable, mind.

The newly penguin-friendly edition of EAC is called EAC Linux v2. "Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) has supported native Linux game clients since 2014," Epic explain in a blog post . "In 2021, we added support for running Windows game builds on Linux via Wine/Proton. However, that support is opt-in for each game and many haven’t opted in because our Linux implementation couldn’t offer the same level of protection as our Windows implementation.…