You can install other store fronts on Steam Deck with ease. It’s called flatpak : lutris, heroic.
The install process is not that involved, we can literally install fortnite right now on steam deck.
Hell, it even briefly ran on Steam Deck in 2022 when they fucked up and the Anti-cheat was half broken.
I’m saying it’s probably not profitable for them to do so.
My point here isn’t to claim that Epic is doing something good here, but to show it’s probably not some weird hatred of Linux, but a business choice.
Yeah, Epic totally killed the pre-existing, and flawlessly working Linux version of Rocket League when they acquired the studio and then refused to refund because “meh profits, leh business choice” (ಠ_ಠ)>⌐■-■
They couldn’t possibly have a hard on for fucking over Linux users.
The fact they even still allow it to run under proton is a fuckin miracle, or rather they know that’d they get bad PR as it’s already proven to be viable.
Also, don’t you find it fucking hilarious how they fired a fuck load of developers and then Tim goes “if only we had more developers” 💀