Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn’t run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it’s just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV
I can pretty much just play the games I would normally, which fortunately doesn’t normally include any MMO or multiplayer only. I do play Star Trek Online on rare occasions, but it works just fine for me.
I’ve always been lucky in that probably 40% of my favorite PC games already have native ports or native options for play, but Proton has been pretty great out of the box for most that aren’t native. This year the only games I remember having major issues with were Uncharted Lost Legacy, and Batman Arkham Asylum. Uncharted was a glitch with water rendering crashing the game. It worked fine once I tweaked some settings and changed the Proton version, so it could have even been a game issue. Batman wouldn’t launch without a few different tweaks, but ProtonDB had some fixes.
I’m too happy with my keyboard and mouse to go that far! Also, some of the games I play aren’t necessarily the best for the small screen/controller combo on the Deck.
Of course! But if I’m going to do that, I’ll just sit down in front of my gaming PC and play everything on ultra and use an ultra widescreen monitor! I play story based and casual games some, but I also spent a lot of time in strategy games and simulators, which don’t always translate well to the small screen.
It is definitely Linux underneath. Technically it says different devices, so that might be why they’re splitting it down. In reality it’s probably a good way to get more advertising for the Deck as people share their stats for the year.
I wonder if that’s why I like FreeBSD so much. I grew up with Windows, but someone in high school (old guy at the local community college I attended at the time) encouraged me to try FreeBSD and I really liked how different it was. I basically only use Linux now, but I still judge Linux by FreeBSD standards and I’d use FreeBSD if it had decent gaming support.
Building a machine that does everything is coming to a household near you! The rest of us, well we’ve been building custom gaming machines for one or two games for a long time.
The tooling is just getting better everyday. I don’t think Windows gaming will ever die but I think the experience has gotten bad enough that people have begun seeking alternatives. If this wasn’t true I don’t think that the SteamDeck would be so successful.
With that being said, I don’t tell everyone to try Linux. I do think that Linux is good for gaming but just hard to use for most gamers. I’ll probably buy a steam deck OLED in March just to “do my part” even though I have far too many custom machines and not enough time to enjoy playing the games.
I was very confused because this chart didn’t show up for me… then I realized that I’m 100% Linux and showing it would’ve been pointless.
Still, I’m very proud of it. Barring some games with arbitrary rootkit restrictions (suck my ass, Tim) and Adobe products (but Adobe can burn and die, so whatever), I’ve been able to completely transition to Linux.
They don’t anymore unfortunately. The best solution I’ve seen is using winapps for Linux, but even that relies on a Windows VM. Worth looking into though still imo, it’s how I use the latest version of Excel for my work.
I won’t claim that it’s all flawless, because it really isn’t sometimes, but a lot of things just work. Both new games, and old ones, that don’t even work on windows to begin with.
My biggest two showstoppers are games like Destiny, and VR titles, that unfortunately are completely unplayable because I own a Rift S.
I still play practically everything else on Linux, and don’t see any reason to not to. I already do everything else on this os, so why would I switch
There’s a bunch of other things, like HDR; I don’t have a HDR monitor so I can’t say what people are missing, but I tried to mess with it in my pet-project game engine and vkSetHdrMetadataEXT just does not exist at all, and I don’t know what library or Vulkan layer could provide it.
It matches with what I’ve heard around, although apparently KDE supports it now?
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