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.
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Would love to see this incorporated as something like 'Community Verification Status', but this works great as well.
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.
Excellent although the actual number of playable games is plenty higher :)
And many of the "unsupported" games work just fine, sometimes with a small tweak like forcing a specific Proton version.
This is great news. I'm really hoping to switch to full Linux for my gaming PC because I really don't want Windows 11.
It's still not click and play, but most of the time it is. I wish companies stopped shipping game launchers, I've been pulling hairs with 2K, tweaking here and there to be able to launch a game.
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And even more are playable on a non-Deck Linux! It's glorious.
Including emulation, way more.
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.
And still no SteamOS3 for Desktop. Oh, Gabe, you fat liar...
Not sure why you would want a locked down OS on your desktop that overwrites your changes and uninstalls custom drivers every time it updates.
Not OP but I'd like a "just works" experience if that's the deal with SteamOS 3.
I guess if everything just worked, that would be fine, but as of now they don't have drivers for wireless Xbox controllers, so you are stuck installing them manually after each software update. Plenty of software just plain isn't available via flatpak, so you have to reinstall it every software update as well, since anything you do via package manager gets deleted each time it updates.
I just don't think they can predict everything that someone might want to do, which is why additional software exists.
Wouldn't that just be bare bones Linux with steam included? Not sure if steamos actually has tweaks over other Linux distro for gaming.
Would be cool for a "console box".
There's a few forks of SteamOS that do the job at least.
Well SteamOS is Arch based but running a LTS kernel with backported changes in a ummutable way with everything sandboxed in Flatpak so it's quite unique but idk why anyone would want to run it on their desktop, if the immutable aspect is so interesting ro you you can try Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS and co. but none of those is in a state that I would recommend as "just works" for a desktop experience, if that's the majore goal Debian or Fedora with Gnome are probably your best options.
Just install Nobara, with Steam.
By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)
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).
There's a bunch that doesn't work for my Steam Deck.
It does open. It does play. But controllers dont map correctly or there's weird layering UI issues, where the game is unresponsive because its waiting for a keyboard event somewhere else, and the player can't actually get there using a controller because the devs assumed people would only use mouse+keyboard. Not even switching controller setups make it work.
That's my bad; I automatically read "Steam Deck" in the parent comment as "Linux" which is obviously a much different story. I've definitely had my share of issues getting certain games to work properly on my Steam Deck that otherwise run flawlessly on my desktop.
Only 13% of my Steam library is verified. That's still plenty of games, but it's a lot more limited than "all games on Steam." More than half of the top 20 games on Twitch are unplayable or run terribly on Linux.
It opens some doors if you're willing to accept "playable" games. That's another 14% of my library. The vast majority are a crapshoot for me on the Deck. Most of the issues revolve around text illegibility and clunky controls.
I regularly play games that are not verified.
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).
Yup. I rarely preorder things, but I made an exception for the Steam Deck and haven't been disappointed.
Gabe Newell > All those other people in the news that I can't seem to get away from