Lutris integrates with itch.io these days, I haven’t used it extensively but it seems robust enough. It should also support your local DRM free games and whatnot.
I’d like to see how this compares to other solutions like Virtual Desktop. If it’s more performative, I’ll go for it. I can’t imagine there will be a big difference.
Well, at least that one works. Though gotta remind this: There are games in Linux category and they suppose to work as a native game however a handful of games don’t work at all due to their one time Linux port by another studio. Usually using Proton fix this issue but this is not something you want so take this as an advice and check the game on ProtonDB and see if the native version of the game you wanna buy works correctly. Also there are many cases of games that using Proton runs better than their native version.
“Problem” is that since the Steam Deck came out thousands of games have been verified to be officially supported. Most of them Windows native.
Plus, for many Linux native games (like the new Tomb Raiders, for instance) the Windows version under Proton actually runs better. I think it’s mostly due to the Linux version often being done by an external developers and their contracts running out, while the Windows version is still getting updates.
I think it’ll be really difficult, if not impossible, to hide all Windows-only games, as I believe Steam will still show Deck-verified games and other games that run on Proton well. ProtonDB lets you exclude Linux-native games, so if they have that information, there may be another service somewhere that lets you filter to only include native games, but I don’t know of one.
Steam supports this natively. In the steam desktop client, click your profile in the top right and push “Account details” now scroll down to “PLATFORM PREFERENCES” and uncheck windows.
It would be nice if they fix VR for linux. It’s been broken for me ever since the 2.0 update so ofc I’m not gonna be buying more games if I can’t even play them.
You need to sign into meta yes, which sucks, but it might be possible to keep the headset offline. It would mean no steam link but sideloading (and thus piracy) is easy as hell on quest.
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