As always, more nuance is inside, but some major bullet points:
- native Linux support for the launcher
- very openly vibe coded, if that’s a line in the sand for you
- Fortnite will be, but is not yet, updated with a new version of Easy Anti Cheat to be compatible with Linux. Yes, there are versions of EAC compatible with Linux today, but not up to Epic’s standards of cheat prevention, and whatever is up to their standards requires coordination with distro maintainers.
- their FAQ openly mentions the necessity of compatibility layers, but I don’t see any mention of native integration with them
There are tens of thousands of instances of car crash deaths in the US every year, but it probably doesn’t stop you from using cars as a mode of transit. My stance is that I won’t use a shit program. AI makes it more likely that the program is going to be shit, but I’ve probably used something made with AI by now, including video games, that did its job and wasn’t shit. The Epic store client was shit before it was vibe coded too, so I didn’t use it. The biggest improvement here regardless of vibe coding is that Linux players will be officially supported customers, so if I buy a copy of Alan Wake II, I have some sort of assurance that I’ll have recourse as a customer against an update that makes it inoperable to me.
Cars are just a tool, like AI, cars dont’t make crashes, drivers do. Drivers are responsible for their driving, just as progrrammers are responsible for their coding. AI doesn’t make more likely shitty programs, people make it more likely. Tools are just that, tools that do and make things, the people behind those tools are the responsible for how are used.
Vibe coding is just bad practice, like horribly wrong practice in 2026. I haven’t read the TOS for the new client so I won’t argue about the part about officially supported customers but I wouldn’t be surprised if that weren’t the case.
Designing our infrastructure for cars first instead of people first encourages crashes to an extraordinary degree, but now we’re getting a bit far from the metaphor.
I don’t know what the TOS allows for, but it’s Epic’s actions regarding new Linux customers that I’d be more interested in. I’m not going to be the guinea pig with their Linux endeavors, but I’ll wait to see what happens the first time a Linux customer runs into problems with a Windows game and its compatibility. At least Epic has an incentive to not be hostile toward those customers anymore.
Code is code is code. Human or ai made.
Any idiot can swing a hammer, it takes a professional to build a house.
Ai useage is the same way. Any idiot can vibe out some slop, but a professional can use it as a proper tool to do a job or help them do theirs.
The problem with AI isn’t what it generates. It’s the training, the water consumption, the copyright and legal issues, and economics.
Ai in and of it self as a tool is fine as a concept. Shitty programs have always and will always exist. Ai didn’t change that in any way that really matters beyond there’s just more of them.