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Watching this progress is what finally pushed me into choosing Linux as daily driver. The other factor is Microsoft is a bag of ass.
Reminder to install ProtonDB Badge on your Steam Deck (via PowerTools). ProtonDB has a vastly larger database of reports, with hints how to improve performance or e.g. fix issues with cutscenes.
Would love to see this incorporated as something like ‘Community Verification Status’, but this works great as well.
Excellent although the actual number of playable games is plenty higher :)
And many of the “unsupported” games work just fine, sometimes with a small tweak like forcing a specific Proton version.
Seems like this could really be a long term hit for Valve, and well deserved considering the effort they’ve put in to make it happen.
I generally avoid praising any company, but they deserve credit for what they’ve done for Linux gaming as a whole, and not trying to lock things down to the degree that other companies would’ve.
Absolutely. I preordered partially because I wanted to support them for everything they’ve done for desktop Linux gaming (I almost never preorder anything), but it ended up being a better product than I expected so I don’t have even a little buyer’s remorse.
I’ll probably preorder the Steam Deck 2 as well.
Valve has earned my business, and they get most of my gaming money. I started using Steam when they released their Linux client, and I really started buying a ton of games when they released Proton. I’ve been with them every step of the way, and they’ve earned every penny I’ve given them.
And even more are playable on a non-Deck Linux! It’s glorious.
Tvo words: fuck yeah
That’s just Steam Deck. I’ve noticed for a few of my games, protondb having reports that they don’t work well on the deck but play fine on other Linux devices.
Well, steam deck is pretty limited in terms of GPU compared to a regular desktop and even then tons of games that would work on it weren’t simply tested yet.
Including emulation, way more.
By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)
Pretty much. Out of the ~380 games in my library, there are only a handful that outright don’t work (excluding those which use anticheat).
There’s a bunch that doesn’t work for my Steam Deck.
It does open. It does play. But controllers dont map correctly or there’s weird layering UI issues, where the game is unresponsive because its waiting for a keyboard event somewhere else, and the player can’t actually get there using a controller because the devs assumed people would only use mouse+keyboard. Not even switching controller setups make it work.
That’s my bad; I automatically read “Steam Deck” in the parent comment as “Linux” which is obviously a much different story. I’ve definitely had my share of issues getting certain games to work properly on my Steam Deck that otherwise run flawlessly on my desktop.
Only 13% of my Steam library is verified. That’s still plenty of games, but it’s a lot more limited than “all games on Steam.” More than half of the top 20 games on Twitch are unplayable or run terribly on Linux.
It opens some doors if you’re willing to accept “playable” games. That’s another 14% of my library. The vast majority are a crapshoot for me on the Deck. Most of the issues revolve around text illegibility and clunky controls.
I regularly play games that are not verified.
11000 games aren’t nearly close to the total games on steam. I have a large library of 1,000 games and some aren’t playable. The original Max Payne is listed as unsupported.
I am not knocking valve’s progress here but I am saying that they aren’t nearly done yet.
And still no SteamOS3 for Desktop. Oh, Gabe, you fat liar…
Not sure why you would want a locked down OS on your desktop that overwrites your changes and uninstalls custom drivers every time it updates.
Not OP but I’d like a “just works” experience if that’s the deal with SteamOS 3.
I guess if everything just worked, that would be fine, but as of now they don’t have drivers for wireless Xbox controllers, so you are stuck installing them manually after each software update. Plenty of software just plain isn’t available via flatpak, so you have to reinstall it every software update as well, since anything you do via package manager gets deleted each time it updates.
I just don’t think they can predict everything that someone might want to do, which is why additional software exists.
Wouldn’t that just be bare bones Linux with steam included? Not sure if steamos actually has tweaks over other Linux distro for gaming.
Would be cool for a “console box”.
There’s a few forks of SteamOS that do the job at least.
Well SteamOS is Arch based but running a LTS kernel with backported changes in a ummutable way with everything sandboxed in Flatpak so it’s quite unique but idk why anyone would want to run it on their desktop, if the immutable aspect is so interesting ro you you can try Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS and co. but none of those is in a state that I would recommend as “just works” for a desktop experience, if that’s the majore goal Debian or Fedora with Gnome are probably your best options.
Just install Nobara, with Steam.
Gaming is so seamless on Linux now, even compared to just a year ago.
The amount of tweaks or fiddling I have to do now with games is basically zero.
Nearly every game I play literally just works. Not just on Proton either, but with regular Wine through Lutris, Windows games just play without issue.
I’ve never been happier with Linux than now.
I’ve been very confident for awhile now that I can just buy games on a whim and not have to check if their compatible. I just assume they are. So far haven’t had any issues, and if I did, then Steam let’s you do an easy auto refund so there’s no risk at all.
Even the online game I play that I had to keep Windows around for (Genshin Impact), they randomly made their anti cheat compatible with Wine so I have zero reason to use Windows now. I have no more games anymore that don’t work on Linux.
There’s just a few super popular shooters with aggressive anti cheats that don’t really work. Its always the anti cheats that demand direct kernel access! Which people really underestimate how massive of a security flaw that is, even if you don’t care about Linux.
People said “never buy 1st gen”. But I thought the steam deck has been completely solid since launch with no major problems or flaws. (Unlike the ROG Ally with the microSD slot overheating).
Gabe Newell > All those other people in the news that I can’t seem to get away from
