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I have never bought a single game on Steam for this exact reason. I will buy from any game store except Steam.
The service on Steam is nothing superior over others. For people that want privacy but can live with DRM, I like Heroic open source launcher for playing games on both Epic and GOG, but Heroic does have issues launching Fortnite.
Fortnite is riddled with overreaching anti-cheat. No shit it wont run on linux.
GOG doesn't sell you anything more than a license, either. The difference is that you can download and keep the game forever.
Except you can actually do that with a lot of games on steam, too. These games don't need steam, which means you could completely uninstall steam, and the game .exe would still work.