Can you run Fortnite on Ubuntu 16.04

Can you run Fortnite on Ubuntu 16.04. When I use Wine 3.1 it pauses when it downloads. Is there any way to run it?

Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly, with the former publishing it. The game was released as a paid-for early access title for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 25, 2017, with a full free-to-play release expected in 2018.

3 Answers

The anti-cheat system will not allow you to play over wine or PlayOnLinux. But you can run a KVM+QEMU high-efficiency virtual machine with Windows installed that should let you play with good performance.

As of today, you can only play Save the World (PvE) in Wine. You can use Lutris to install it easily. To install Lutris, open the Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and enter (copy and paste, followed by ENTER, each line one by one), the following commands:

ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != "18.04" -a $ver != "17.10" -a $ver != "17.04" -a $ver != "16.04" ]; then ver=18.04; fi
echo "deb ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
(enter your password)
wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y lutris

Then visit this page and click on "Install".

To play Battle Royale (PvP) you need to use Windows, either in a virtual machine with its own graphics card or in a dual-boot setup, due to the anti-cheat not currently working in Wine.

Though I like some of the answers they both were given with assumptions that it's not going to work, so here's an answer I found from a reddit winehq maintainer of Fortnite support on Wine;