I notice a weird attitude from most of the linux users in this topic on this forum and I feel a little weird. This is not the FOSS spirit and please pay attention to this. You should all respect the fact that free open source software is not only free by all means, but it is also free to have, which maybe is actually the only thing you care but simultaneously forget. You should appreciate it and welcome it to the linux world. Get mature with linux and a good start is to appreciate what you have been given.
Now I am personally against the “launcher” idea, I consider all kinds of launchers completely useless and one of the reasons is because I only see them as a temporary solution from a development team. There are much more wise ways to get content than having to run multiple things. In the case of linux especially, if the UE developers would like to do something right, they would approach the repositories and completely change the way the website is locked to a launcher and idiotic (pardon me for the word but if you were Greek you would know what it means and not consider it a bad word) approaches. So free it if you want to free it. Do not hold it from one wing and think you have it out free.
A last thing to mention is the obvious, not because all my systems run linux, from servers to desktops, but because most of the people that do real hard work and development already know that linux is not only the future of gaming, but the future of computing. The more you understand it the more you know why you should trash windows.
congratulations to the EU team, keep up and enjoy the summer,
George