I can't speak for him but my experience compiling from source wasn't that bad, but if I wanted to use any assets from the store it required having the epic laun

I can't speak for him but my experience compiling from source wasn't that bad, but if I wanted to use any assets from the store it required having the epic launcher installed on windows, so no download of assets on linux. This was frustrating the first time I showed up to a game jam with a linux only machine, not impossible to use but a pain that felt unnessisary.