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ANY way to play just A version of fortnite? (lemdro.id)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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is there like ANY version of fortnite where you can play with windows users? if not what are the best alternatives?

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If you have Amazon Prime you can stream Fortnite through Luna in a browser.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    oh wow really? my mom has a prime subscription so maybe i can use that, does it have privacy concerns or? idk what concerns there can be but its hard to trust a massive company

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't think using Amazon Luna on your PC gives you any particular privacy concerns. It's just a website. If you're worried, as long as you're using a decent privacy-conscious web browser, and/or a separate browser to what youd normally use, IMO you're probably fine. I think Luna needs a Chromium based web browser to work if it helps.

    I play Fortnite on my Fedora laptop with my son using my partner's Prime account, and it works pretty well. It pops up at the start to say it's not a supported platform, but then plays with generally no problem.

    Oh one thing, you'd need to link your Amazon account and Epic account, so whoever has access to your Amazon account can play your Epic games through Luna. For me that's not an issue but it might be for you if it's your mom's account?

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    • [–] 26 points 3 months ago* (31 children)

    Afaik Fortnite blocks access to Linux users due to anticheat? Options that come to mind are running on a VM with Windows, playing on consoles, and playing on a burner computer with Windows installed on bare metal.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago (27 children)

    ive tried something like winboat and it was laggy as shit, i dont really have any modern console that plays fortnite other than the switch (yuck), and i dont think i have a spare Windows machine that isnt the slowet crap on earth

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago* (24 children)

    I'd just get a cheap small second hard drive for your PC, install windows on it, dual boot set up (keep linux as the primary drive and Grub will have Windows as an option) and use it to play Fortnite. Windows will pester about activating but if you're just using it to play Fortnite so ignore it.

    I Linux main, but kept my old Windows drive and install in case I ever need it. Haven't used it in ages, but it's pretty harmless to have an old drive sitting in my PC. I don't even mount the drive in Linux, it's just there if I need it.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Remember when we could get cheap second drives? Those were the days.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    a 500gb hard drive is like $30 thats nothing.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    I don't think anyone should be running an OS on a hard drive.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Its slightly slower to first load and you're only using it to play one game which loads into ram anyway. There is no reason not to.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (8 children)

    I think it's been quite awhile since you've used an OS on spinning rust. It's not a great time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I have a PC in my house where the SSD has linux and windows is on the harddrive. It only boots for league of legends and its fine.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I'm sure it has no problem running the game from Windows XP days.

    The OS, unlike the game, is constantly running. It's not a slight difference.

    A person running in this configuration can often look forward to stuttering, which makes for a wonderful time.

    You're hilariously making out a configuration from a lifetime ago to work nearly as well.

    Fortnite and an OS on a hard drive is going to be a very bad time.

    What a strange thing to be contrarian aboot. It's almost like you're defending storage prices.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    They are speaking from personal experience. Why are you forcing an agenda on them. Have you tried running Fortnite + Windows from a hard drive? Because it sounds like they did something that was pretty close

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    What agenda am I pushing?

    I've been through most stages of computing. I remember being a wee lad with 5.25" floppies.

    There isn't much I haven't experienced.

    What they did was not close. Not even similar. They're playing a game from 2009 on a HDD. It doesn't require much.

    Storage is expensive. Wasting money on equipment that will leave you disappointed isn't what most would want.

    Spinning rust is fine for most games on a second drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's almost like you're defending storage prices.

    Here is where you are pushing an agenda on them. They aren't defending storage prices they are sharing their personal experience with a solution they offered to OP

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    If you really cannot live with a 500gb HDD for $30 you can a 500gb SSD for $60 which is still cheap. 2nd hand they're practically free.

    Also its not just league of legends, it also plays Rainbow six siege its really not as bad as you are making it out to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    hehe, true. I'd just buy a used one off ebay. It doesn't have to be a good drive really as it's not going to have critical data on it. People don't want them because the drives are old and could fail, but for this would literally just be windows and an online game so I'd take the risk of the inconvenience of having to replace it in a year. Any data lost can just be re-downloaded onto a new drive. E.g. I found a bunch of second hand SSDs for £30-£40 on a quick search now. Wouldn't touch them for data storage but for this - why not?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Using grub is a poor idea since Windows boot manager has a habit of breaking things if you do, the only way to avoid windows bricking your bootloader is to put windows on a separate drive and change the boot order in uefi

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    Good idea. And if @goofsqueak@lemdro.id goes for it and is concerned about the physical drive with Windows potentially tempering with the Linux install or reporting back to MS or whomever else whatever it finds, goofsqueak could unplug the Linux drive before plugging the Windows one, so no physical access to the main system is given to Windows.

    And to goofsqueak, any problem with Fortnite on the Switch? I don't play games as services so I wouldn't know, and at least from my experience with offline games, if the problem are graphics, Fortnite from the little I know of, I don't think would lose much in terms of quality.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    answer to the bottom question: the switches graphics sucks bum, yes, but the performance is also garbage. and paired with the joycons (i dont have a pro controller but can easily fix that) makes the experince horrible. i dont really remember how bad the performance was but i know it was bad. like imagine fortnite but compressed to shit, basically that

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Windows cant read ext4 or btrfs so I doubt they care enough to be sneakily trying to identify and read data on another partion.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    When everything's data that could be harvested for who knows what nefarious reasons, I'd rather not risk their "can't read" to be actually "pretend not to be able to", specially coming from Microsoft.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Its not all nefarious. The bad is usually a byproduct of normal business usecase. Here there is little reason to hide ext4 and btrfs support just to spy on a few linux boxes.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I hate this coopting of bare metal. Bare metal means no OS. Having an os is not bare metal.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Stream it from:

    • Amazon Luna
    • Xbox game pass
    • Nvidia
    • Windows PC
    • Console (Xbox/Playstation)

    Anything else has a risk of an account ban.

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    • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Try waydroid

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    will probably look and play like dogshit but what choice do i have lowkey

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Well, unless fortnite for android is unoptimized it should run fine.

    Waydroid runs on top of the system kernel and uses the same drivers graphical drivers as the system, it's pretty much like running the game natively but with a bit more jank

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    It was a bit complicated to set up, but I have a USB key with Windows To Go installed for exactly this use case.

    Mates insist on playing Fortnite when we LAN once a year smh

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    whats a usb key? is it just a normal usb drive?

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    • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    the original version or the pubg version?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    the monitized slop fest (battle royale)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    nah. you're actively blocked from doing it. if you run a vm and that information is in anyway visible, you get banned.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    i was mainly thinking one of those thingos that use old seasons of fortnite, like season 2 or 8 or something. i don memember what they're called and i tried to get one working but i couldnt do it

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Your best bet is using a Nintendo Switch or GeForce Now.

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    • [+] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)
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    • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck Fortnite

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