Ok. So I have a decent setup and running Mint because I do not want the hassle of Arch. I know Epic has said several times they won't support us. Whatever, it's lame. But my son has Windows 10 and plays Fortnite and wants to come to Linux. I have no problem with my steam games.

GE Force Now works great for my needs. But he is really into it. I tried a VirtualBox and no go. Heroic, doesn't work. Lutris? Never loads. Fuguna downloaded but wouldn't launch.

Is there any other option besides GE Force Now?

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[–] 65 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    For Epic Games use Heroic.

    For Fortnite use... well, you are pretty much out of luck. A Windows VM with GPU pass-thru maybe?

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I totally understand. Just wondering if there is something else out there that I can't find with searches.

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  • [+] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Dual boot.

    Strip Windows down and make it “Fortnite OS”

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago

    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

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    Yes. But I'm wondering if there is a better way.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It does. But only through GE Force Now and cloud gaming. It doesn't work as Linux native.

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

    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.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Windows or Console is only way. Until the devs allow it on other OS.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I have never done this. Do you have a good source for a guide or walkthrough to look over before I attempt it?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    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!

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