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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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The recent news that SteamOS may soon be shipped with third-party devices could be particularly important for Linux gaming on desktops.

Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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Valve’s plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

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I saw a post on bluesky saying Steamdeck can't be widely adopted because of linux. I asked why is that the case? He says "Linux doesn't run as many games as windows ". I said "only a few and the anti cheat ones". He kept arguing. I asked him about nintendo and he goes "It has the games to back it up" and I blocked him lol.
Millions of games are not enough because its FOMO.
- Linux doesn't run as many games as Windows
  I'd argue it runs more due to compatibility breaks. Wine just-werks with a lot of old installers.
  
  Indeed. I couldn’t get a couple of old 3DO games working on windows 10/11 even though I bought them on Steam.
  Work great on Linux w/ Photon (aka wine).
  
  Hit or miss sadly, but still damn close to magic. I can play skyrim and it runs.. As expected, but can't install dark souls rn.
  
  Old Gfwl bullshit, probably
  
  The psychic damage from that acronym still hurts after all these years.
  
  I've got Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (with DSFix) working just fine.
  I don't remember having to do anything weird... Have you tried ProtonGE? Maybe it was DSFix that makes it work? I don't remember if I tried playing without DSFix first.
  
  My copy's pirated thats prolly Why u don't have issues, I'm launching the installer wine installer.exe
  
  Sadly the repacks like fitgirl is a hit or miss
  
  Rip. At least my gta5 dodi repack plays... OK. Either play a pirated copy of gta5 or simply don't play it at all cus my legitimate copy can't play cus its epic games and the cockstar launcher won't connect to the internet thus locking me out of the game, even offline🤡. It has issues with light, when it hits at certain angles the whole map becomes white AF and things from a distant draw poorly, like mountains and such. Other than that thank god triple a games are at least playable on gnux. Ty crackers and ty wine+proton :3
  
  It has issues with light, when it hits at certain angles the whole map becomes white AF and things from a distant draw poorly, like mountains and such
  WTF
  
  Ye, no clue if its the repack or wine xD.
- any game that needs to install a rootkit on my computer to play it was never going on my computer anyway. Proton can more or less handle every else on linux at this point. Hardware driver support is getting quite mature too. 2025 is legitimately the year of the linux gaming desktop imo.
- I have both. As a pure console I still prefer the Switch, and there is a huge overlap in the games. But the Deck is much more than just a gaming handheld, it is now my only PC as well.
  
  I understand why there are so many Nintendo gamers. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of people. Whenever it comes to linux, they demand everything be perfect. They never show the same attitude towards others. Captialism shills.
  
  Nintendo has fans and is an established brand. But I think what most people dislike is the uncertainty. With the Switch you can know for certain all games you buy will work, but with the Steam Deck it’s not guaranteed though it will scan your library and give you a rating. Though in my case I had many “unsupported” games actually work flawlessly.
  
  I think is more of like the fear of the unknown than the uncertainty, for example is uncertain if a new switch game will run well(looking at you pokémon)

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