I believe the anticheat for Fortnite it the kernel-level flavor or Easy Anti Cheat the article mentions, and I think that by its nature it cannot be easily ported to Linux, Epic would have to drop it altogether in favor of the “vanilla” flavor of EAC.
The funniest thing about it is that they did make the anticheat Linux compatible. They just refuse to activate it for Fortnite.
I believe the anticheat for Fortnite it the kernel-level flavor or Easy Anti Cheat the article mentions, and I think that by its nature it cannot be easily ported to Linux, Epic would have to drop it altogether in favor of the “vanilla” flavor of EAC.