I took the steam deck on my last trip out of country to use on the flight.
There was a monitor, mouse and keyboard at my destination. I worked for several weeks and used the steam deck in desktop mode for me, and used remote desktop on it for work.
So I didn’t have to bring my laptop anymore.
Awesome little device.
The fact that Valve decided to not lock it down and let you use it as a PC is hands down one of the best things about it.
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Are you me?
Same!
And I love it!
The Steam Machine lives!
I went full Linux a few months ago and haven’t looked back. Steam has superb support for basically everything I could want to play – in some cases I feel like Linux actually performs better than Windows on the same hardware. I really appreciate the huge investment Valve made into making Linux gaming work.
I’m in the process of swapping over now. Certainly some speed bumps after many years of Windows, but it’s been kind of fun.
There are a few games I’ve hit that I can’t play, but that why I’m dual booting for the near future. Linux as the daily driver and then back to windows when I have to.
Yeah a lot of games with really strong anti-piracy just don’t work at all. I was shocked that Roblox was one of the few ones that just wouldn’t make the jump, for example, Grapejuice notwithstanding.
Pro tip: You don’t have to deal with anti piracy if you pirate it.
Oh the beautiful irony
I really appreciate that I can buy first-party hardware from Valve and then install and run GoG games on it without any BS barriers or workarounds.
I got some GoG games on sale yesterday. Installed Heroic Games Launcher. Logged in. Installed the games. Clicked “add to Steam library” and boom, there they are in the Steam launcher alongside my other Steam games.
This is just such a breath of fresh air in a modern world consumed by proprietary bullshit. Valve is the anti-Nintendo.
in some cases I feel like Linux actually performs better than Windows on the same hardware
What are those cases?
@Llewellyn
File system operations are often faster. This is in part due to Windows doing more; it has a more complex and more flexible permissions system.Spawning threads and processes is also normally faster. Linux apps thinks nothing of spawning lots of processes with abandon, then have them opening and closing files all over the place. If you move it straight over to a Windows machine it will tend to run very badly as a result.
Only thing so far is other game launchers, and VR. I’m still dual booting, especially for VR.
For other game launchers use bottles
I’m not well versed with bottles, is there a good resource for that?
I honestly just watched a youtube tutorial
You probably can look into the arch wiki although if you don’t use arch there may be some differences.
If i find the youtube video i will edit this comment and link it [here]
Alternatively here is how i did it:
•Install the bottles application (from the aur) •install proton ge runner •Create a new bottle •select proton ge as runner for said bottle •Download launcher installer (battle.net in my case) •run application > battlenetinstaller.exe (or however it’s named)
@yogthos I just got a Mac but I would love to have a laptop that has Linux and play triple AAA games.
I picked up a Steam Deck and find it’s pretty good for all my gaming needs.
1.96% Linux compared to 1.84% Mac.
I mean, it is technically more yeah.
An upward trend is an upward trend
I’ve been using Mint OS for gaming and it’s been perfectly fine. I probably can’t play some burning edge, this year games, but everything else has been fine. And I’m free from Windows garbageware.
As a noob to Linux and a very casual/ infrequent gamer, I have a question for you. I recently made the switch from Windows to Mint (dual boot so I have a fall back) and found that I can’t play half of my steam games on it. I was surprised by the quantity since I have read a ton of comments referencing the high % of supported games. Much of my library consists of the indie genre, could this be the reason why I have lower playability? Or could there be some add-on that I am missing?
NGL, I play games off of Steam, which is easy mode. You can run the Windows game off of Proton, which is Valve’s program for Windows to Linux gaming. Did you try right clicking on the game in Library, going to Properties, then Compatibility tab, then choosing Proton. Almost always the newest version of Proton (8.0-3) will do the trick. Rarely the experimental version or an older version is better.
Adding “gamemoderun %command%” [without the speech marks] to the launch options usually improves performance.
There’s a bit of learning curve, but you can do it, comrade.
Most of Steam games rely on Proton for support. You need to enable it in Steam’s settings, under Steam Play.
You can check how well a game runs on protondb. Some games may require additional steps to be playable (using a specific version of Proton, installing something), protondb reports most of the time include required information.
Wow thank you so much for this - I had no idea! I am midway through a CPU change but as soon as I can get back in I will give this a try. Cheers!
You need to enable it in Steam’s settings, under Steam Play
Honestly, this needs to go away, there is never a scenario where Linux gamers only want to play some of their games. There should be instead some pop up window for non proton verified games instead of an obtuse setting.
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I really hope they will continue maintaining it and release new versions 🤞
They also need to push Linux explicitly. Something like exclusive deals or sponsoring in game events if you play on Linux. Though it might just end up like TF2 with people logging in on a new device, getting the exclusive items, and using it as a currency to trade without actually using the OS lol
Or, optimize CSGO and Dota and VAC for Linux and start using it in competitions to attract more curious minds.
They could enforce SteamOS in Dota2/CSGO esports events. That would be a huge boost
