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Valve angered them and Linux support is one of the few ways they can harm them without significantly harming themselves.
During a big anti-trust fight with Apple about their 30% tax they demanded on Twitter that Valve lowered their fees for everybody to give Epic an advantage in the legal fight.
In the end Valve only lowered the prices for big publishers, but not small.
This angered them.
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Epic Games is a lot different than in the times of UT, it's a lot more corporate. You think of the company in terms of the developers but when I think of Epic I think of Tencent who owns 35% of the company, Sony who owns 5% and a Danish hedgefund who owns 3%. It's easy to say that Tim Sweeney can just veto them if they oppose Linux but to cross them could spell a lot of problems for Epic. Lets not forget that Gabe started to support Linux only when Microsoft started to try to get a possible stranglehold on how programs can work on Windows with soft threats. Linux was nothing more than a bet being hedged by Gabe.
They have also said that if Valve reduced their commission on Steam games from 30% to 12%, they would stop doing exclusivity deals and put their games on Steam. Yet the Epic Games Store still has far less users than Steam and is still not profitable. They have lost most of their revenue on exclusivity.