Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-arrives-native-linux-support-fortnite-for-linux-is-coming-and-upgraded-easy-anti-cheat/

I must admit - I am thoroughly shocked that not only are they doing it, but they're actually going all the way to get their main game of Fortnite with upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat running on Linux too. Although, they're going all-in with AI, and even mentioned the new app has been "vibe coded".

I mean it's Linux gaming support even if it is Epic but that AI comment, yeah....

2 weeks later: "Epic Games is filing for bankruptcy after blowing all its cash on vibe coding and a marketing campaign for its new launcher"

Even though I don't use Epic Games/play games with anticheat, I'm pretty excited about this. If Fortnite finds success with an anticheat on Linux, there's a good chance that other major players will follow suit. The #1 reason to not switch to Linux I have seen from gamers is that they can't play multiplayer games that require anticheat, and a ton of them use Fortnite as an example.

Lol they are going hard on social media comparing how they are faster than Steam, but the new launcher they are boasting about doesn't even have feature parity with their own old launcher never mind feature parity with Steam.

Way to bury the lede: it's "vibe coded". 🤢

With pretty much all software being written by LLMs that should be everybody's default assumption in 2026.

It's worth including if it's not vibbed, because that's the minority now.

Hey, it's "for her pleasure", after all. 🤷🏼‍♂️

upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat

It's been expelled to the fires of Hell where it belongs?

TL;DR: they called it vibe coding not using AI as a tool, or AI assisted coding. It's a red flag to me and the app is probably crap.

It's one thing to use AI to code and completely another to "vibe code".

Vibe coding as a general thing, means giving the ai a task, having it do it with minimum intervention, and if it "looks" good, shipping it as is.

i.e. vibe coding is terrible. It produces dogshit.

Using AI to write some form using a CMS's API that you've done a thousand times and it's just a PITA to find how to define the fields, is fine, for example. But that isn't vibe coding per-se.

If they used AI as a tool they wouldn't call it vibe coding, but they probably used it as a mule that did everything and just carried them along, produced crap, after which they say LGTM and ship it to us posing as if they made something even remotely close to linux users' standards.

Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher

Is it april fools day?

I guess. I'll just let people call it what they want.

Who the fuck is going to play Fortnite on Linux?

using existing Linux features including signed kernel, signed kernel modules, and secure boot with attestation

Hell no, fuck that. Last time I tried secure boot it broke everything. I take my freedom to run my system the way I want and if you don't like that then I'll keep my money and spend it on other games instead.