I believe Steam is just showing you games that can run natively on Linux. You have to run Windows games through wine/proton like the Deck does.
I don’t actually have an anything except the Deck running Linux so I can’t help beyond that. I may even be wrong but it’s at least a place to start searching.
I always love seeing someone reach the eureka moment where they realize windows is no longer necessary. There are a few games I had to give up completely, but honestly it’s worth the sacrifice. I’m going on over a year with no windows in my home.
All games in my 300 game library show up with that option enabled. So far everything just ran with minimal tinkering (selecting a specific proton version in game settings)
Also I seem to remember doing the same on my Deck a while back, possibly he also did it there but forgot about it since this is a do once and never again thing.
It’s funny because when you described your problem I also knew immediately what the issue was since I remember turning that setting on for my gaming PC back when steam play was new (been gaming on Linux exclusively since 2016).
But for the life of me I can not remember turning on that setting on my steam deck. I must have since it works with all games but I really can’t remember switching it on.
It probably should be at this point. The opposite made a ton of sense when Steam Play was new and most games didn’t work, but now the opposite is true (at least in my experience).
I think the reason it’s opt-in is so that people don’t feel like they’ve been ripped off/lied to when they buy a game thinking they are getting a native experience
Yeah, makes sense. However, that could be easily solved with a popup or something when you first launch a game that says, “This title has not been verified by Valve to run properly on your platform, do you want to continue? [ x ] Don’t show this again.”
Which is even funnier because a lot of the times the native builds run worse, if at all, and it is typically recommended to just use Proton. Native clients unfortunately mean jack shit if they aren't properly supported and maintained by the developers, which is why I'm not too fazed whenever people were warning that Proton will cause fewer native titles. Like, have you seen the Linux gaming market pre Proton? It was not pretty, not even with Wine, but especially with just native titles only. Can't tell me they would rather go back to that instead of the current situation.
No. But Apple has built an alternative, although devs need to do some work to get their games running. That said, Mac gaming is even less popular than Linux Gaming, so don’t expect a good catalogue.
By default only the officially supported games are listed. If a game is not supported this does not in.any way mean that it will not work. In my experience everything except some anticheat infested games will not work. For some rare games some tinkering is necessary, yiucan typically find infos here in the protondb
To make all games visible, go to your settings then go to the “Compatibility” settings, then locate the “Steam Play” section. Toggle on the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles,” choose the latest Proton version from the dropdown menu, click “OK,” and restart Steam.
Did you turn on steamplay/proton on in the settings? Including the toggle to use it for all titels?
Of course does not mean all games are playable, but they at least should so up in your library to try.
You can test a windows game and especially single player games most just work. If you have some problems you can check it on protondb.com. Maybe someone already found a simple solution.
Cool! Might make me reconsider the next laptop I get. The all-AMD Zephyrus G14 I currently run has been an awful experience (overheating after 15min of gaming, random iGPU freezes, fTPM stuttering, no video accel on Wayland, HDMI is broken, wifi randomly stops working, and mic disappears on 99% of boots), and I was looking to replace it with an Nvidia laptop, but maybe Tuxedo can fix these issues on their own hardware and make AMD viable.
Also, just a stable accelerated desktop on install. Basic home/office and web/media consumption use.
Regarding cuda, yeah never know. Probably not for a long while as one of the benefits of their current driver is that it uses the same codebase between linux, freebsd and windows, so they should have feature parity in that regard. There are definitely pro/cons for their driver though.
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