To be clear, while the article says this is “official support”, this is only drivers provided by valve.
Per valve:
We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer ‘Windows on Deck’ support.
- Muffi ( @Muffi@programming.dev ) 106•1 month ago
Great! Like installing square wheels on my bike
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 15•1 month ago
Minecraft players in en shambles right now.
- soulsource ( @soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de ) 41•1 month ago
I would rather trust GamingOnLinux here:
While it is not in any way officially supported by Valve, they have now released Windows drivers for the newer Steam Deck OLED model.
(emphasis mine)
Yeah, that is a good point to make.
Main reason I linked the steamdeckhq coverage is because they covered it last night, where gamingonlinux didn’t have any coverage of it until a few hours ago.
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 37•1 month ago
Eww…
- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 32•1 month ago
Blech! Why would somebody sully such a wonderful device with a piss patty OS?
- Reawake9179 ( @Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social ) 11•1 month ago
I could imagine that games with invasive anti cheats are a reason.
As someone who played a couple, i just stopped playing them.
I’m a little sad they did this, i hoped that the pressure on the game devs would rise so they support Linux, oh well.
- andreluis034 ( @andreluis034@bookwormstory.social ) English10•1 month ago
Personally, I think this is great because I can now use my game pass subscription on the steam deck, I know I could use the cloud functionality on steamos, but it is not the same.
This limitation made be realize the vendor lock-in that game pass is, sure it provides awesome value, but forces you to have windows or buy an Xbox.
- ThunderChunk ( @ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•1 month ago
Getting Game Pass on steamos is pretty easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U22q9mKfW3Y
- andreluis034 ( @andreluis034@bookwormstory.social ) English1•1 month ago
Did you actually watch the video and/or read what I said? I want to be able to play the games locally, not from the cloud.
- ThunderChunk ( @ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 month ago
I guess I skimmed over ur comment. I definitely watched the video tho lol
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English26•1 month ago
Meh.
- MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 24•1 month ago
Uhhh…well. that’s…um. sure. Someone could do that.
- orca ( @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ) 23•1 month ago
I’ve used the ASUS ROG Ally and I do not recommend running Windows on anything, let alone a handheld. Don’t tarnish your Steam Deck with this!
I fully agree, but the Deck should be less painful to run windows on thanks to the track pad.
- orca ( @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ) 4•1 month ago
The trackpad is amazing on the Deck.
- Stampela ( @Stampela@startrek.website ) English22•1 month ago
And then there’s me, who got a new laptop a couple of days ago after looking into things, and the pre installed Windows worked perfectly to test the hardware worked fine… before being replaced by Linux.
- thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 21•1 month ago
Good news, Lemmy! You will no longer be forced by big tech corporations to run uh… [checks notes] a version of Linux on your Steam Deck anymore!
- prole ( @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 14•1 month ago
No thanks
- HEXN3T ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•1 month ago
Wow! This is worthless!
- recursive_recursion [they/them] ( @recursive_recursion@programming.dev ) English13•1 month ago
who would use it when Linux just works in addition to Microsoft’s continued enshitification of Windows?
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 15•1 month ago
The only reason to use Windows over Linux is compatibility with certain games (or even applications). Also the price of the device is pretty low. That means people who are interested into handheld PCs who want to use it as a sort of laptop for cheap and don’t care about Linux, can still install Windows on it. I’m not recommending it, but I’m glad people have this option and Valve is not actively trying to stop people (unlike other companies).
- embed_me ( @embed_me@programming.dev ) 10•1 month ago
Yeah I’m sure they have their reasons but if it were up to me I would never allocate resources for that.
“Let it rot and fester somewhere else”
- prole ( @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 month ago
Perhaps it’s due to the games I play not being online multiplayer for the most part, but I’ve yet to encounter a game that I couldn’t get to work on Linux, with ~99% requiring absolutely no effort (besides clicking a drop down menu).
And this includes games that Steam has labeled “unsupported” (not even just “unverified”).
At risk of being that annoying, “but have you tried lately?” guy but… Have you? Because it’s pretty wild. In many cases, the Windows version of the game, played using Proton, works better than the native Linux runtime.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month ago
Yes, I’m playing unsupported and unverified games just fine too. Its the nature of progress, where the game, the drivers/system or Proton gets updated and the tested state no longer is accurate. There was a few cases when I tried the Windows version over Linux native build to see how it works. However I was never in a position where I needed that or when it was obviously much better. I always have this in mind in case I need to switch. Maybe in future versions where the native build is no longer functional under Linux.
- YourPrivatHater ( @YourPrivatHater@ani.social ) 13•1 month ago
Fuck that.
- sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ( @sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ) 12•1 month ago
What if I told you, you can pay money for spyware
- Read bio ( @Mwa@thelemmy.club ) English11•1 month ago
No thanks 🤮