Unless you’re trying to play multiplayer games with incompatible anticheat you’ll most likely be just fine. There are obviously edge cases, like OP, where something is just not working right, but I gamed on Linux for hundreds of hours last year with basically no issues at all.
Thanks, it’s been great so far! I’m sure I’ll run into something that’ll give me some issues, but we’ll see!
I’ve definitely recommended it to people, especially when they’re just wanting to get into some basic gaming. It’s almost console level easy in a lot of cases, and if they want to get more involved in PC games in the future, their game library and everything carries right over.
I definitely have not missed all of the rebooting and issues involved with starting that partition just to play some games!
We all have it so easy now, that’s for sure. It definitely appears you prefer your Deck!
It’s not too hard, but it sounds like you might have some overlap with your current setup at that point. I certainly understand the too many games situation though! We’re very spoiled for choice on that.
It can be very enjoyable if you like some of the older games. I’ve always liked a lot of the SNES games for some reason, and I’m too young to be nostalgic for it! I have myself one of the original consoles and a small game collection, but sometimes it’s nice to use emulation as well.
It does sound like it’s perfect! I enjoy seeing what all people do with their Deck, it’s sometimes pretty impressive. I’ve definitely used mine for retro gaming before, it’s great how capable they can be.
It certainly has been great! Hopefully it only gets better from here!
That’s my thought on programs like that. Unless you absolutely have to run some extremely esoteric software or something from a company that just hates Linux, it’s usually going to work just fine. It was completely worthwhile to deal with learning a new workflow on a few things to get all of the benefits. I found native replacements that work just as well if not better for every program that I used, except for my music player. I can’t find anything that works quite as well as Aimp, so I just run it through Wine.
My viewpoint on a lot of things is to use what works for you. In my case, Windows didn’t cut it anymore, so I switched to what did!
Good to know, I hadn’t seen that yet. That makes the devices wording fit somewhat better.
The controller vs keyboard and mouse was messed up for me apparently, because it didn’t show up this year. And I know I spent 60+ hours using a DualSense on American and Euro Truck Simulator, plus all of my time on the Deck!
Glad to hear Linux gaming is working out for you as well! I started doing some basic gaming on Linux some years back, but I didn’t really start running it on my main gaming computer until a couple of years ago. Then this past year I decided to not boot into Windows to game unless I couldn’t do it on Linux. Then all year it worked just fine! With the push by Valve in recent years it’s made it so easy, as long as the game devs don’t throw roadblocks into it!
Yes, in bed is the perfect spot for it! I often use it on the couch or on the back porch as well. And it’s a game changer for when I’m in bed sick too. When I’m feeling half decent I can just grab it for a bit and chase away the boredom, and then put it down just as quickly.
I don’t think I’ll be using as my primary device anytime soon, but there’s always that possibility! I like high resolution monitors and high graphics settings too well on some games!
If you have one, it would be somewhere on your Year in Review page on Steam. Even though it says devices, it seems to only split it by Linux/Windows/MacOS/Steam Deck. So unless you use a Steam Deck it most likely won’t be on there. I’ve used five devices including my Deck within the last year, and it only split it two ways.
Yes, it appears that unless you use more than one OS or something like the Steam Deck you don’t get a graph.
I could definitely see it happening that way. I don’t think anything has been announced either way, but I know I had seen some rumors or speculation about a possible semi self-contained VR headset from Valve. If that turns out to be fact, I could see them using Linux as the base for it.
Congrats!
It’s a great portable device if you have a good use case for it. I could even see it as a fairly capable primary device with some peripherals. But I’m sure you’ve heard and seen all of that before! :-)
That’s great!
I would just use Proton at this point. I haven’t tried Shadow on Proton, but for Rise it worked a lot better than on native unfortunately.