That issue will be true on any linux platform because Epic Games is a nasty company that doesn't care about consumer friendly practices. How will this device get around that?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/?n=@

Regardless, to say that the Steam Deck is locked down to the steamverse, is such a weird thing to lie about. You can install basically anything on Steam Deck:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nonsteamlaunchers-for-other-stores-on-steam-deck-adds-automatic-game-shortcuts/

It still won't work with Playtron since it also can't load Windows kernel drivers under Linux.

The only way this could ever happen without also making it work for SteamOS is if they made a deal with Epic to either support user mode anticheat with their OS or to compile and ship ring 0 anticheat with every release of Playtron.

Fortnite works (confirmed in beta), both anticheats it uses work, Epic just needs to enable Linux support in the EAC dashboard and ship the library to get EAC to work, and for BattlEYE all that is required is an email. They just don't care about us.

You can play Fortnite using Xbox Cloud for free.

Is it really worth dealing with Windows' bullshit to play a native version of a bad competitive shooter from a shitty company, with a controller? It's not like you can play it offline either.