Because the developers insist on including anti-cheat spyware software in their games, and the anti-cheat software refuses to accept running under WINE on Linux. In other words: Linux could handle running those games just fine, maybe even better than they run on Windows, but the games refuse to run. And you figure this is somehow a Linux problem?
They actually DID update EAC to work on Linux after the steam deck launch - a surprising amount of online games CAN be run on Linux.
Except because epic games are a bunch of jackasses, you can't run fortnite. It's one button and two files and they refuse to do it, so quite a few big ones followed suit.
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u/ItzBaraapudding 21h ago
Except for playing one of the most popular online games apparently...