Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite

I conveniently had my UT04 retail box sitting on the shelf next to me. I can confirm there's a little penguin on the back of package, and under OS requirements they list Linux with an asterisk explaining it's not supported by Atari (publisher).

There is nothing else in the manual indicating how to use the Linux version, which disk to use, or any additional information that I can find.

Edit: geez I miss game manuals sometimes. All the game mechanics are so nicely explained, and it has instructions to setup modding tools!

You may absolutely be correct, I only learned of it a decade after I bought the game.

Still awesome to include a native Linux version of the game back in 2004!

Epic shut down the UT2004 master server back in this spring, before it died the community had created a new public master server, I had to edit the master server address in ut2004.ini but it works.

Epic does deserve credit for running the master server for a game for 19 years, regardless of their current actions, that deserves mad respect.

They even ran their stats tracking service untill then IIRC...

As have I (: