So I followed the instruction in the following link to get Unreal on my Linux machine with Fedora 30: Linux Game Development in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation
It seems to have installed, and I can start the launcher, but when I open / create a project, the launcher crashes, and the project opens and freezes the whole computer.
The computer in question is a Lenovo Legion Y520 gaming laptop with i7