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 Badges on your Steam Deck (via Decky Loader). ProtonDB has a vastly larger database of reports, with hints how to improve performance or e.g. fix issues with cutscenes.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe ProtonDB Badge and PowerTools are both plugins for Decky Loader. Still both useful, but PowerTools isn’t required for ProtonDB Badge to work
You’re 100% right, thanks. I’ve corrected my comment.
Would love to see this incorporated as something like ‘Community Verification Status’, but this works great as well.
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.
Excellent although the actual number of playable games is plenty higher :)
And even more are playable on a non-Deck Linux! It’s glorious.
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.
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.
By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)
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Max Payne works with a platinium rating, see in winehq: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=661 and also in protondb: https://www.protondb.com/app/12140?device=any
Just because a game hasn’t been verified by Steam does not mean it doesn’t work.
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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).
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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).
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