Samuel
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David Buchananjust install linux and then you won't have time for such frivolities
2 19SamuelI watched my friend become nixpilled recently, very sad and tragic
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Sensual KazooIt's gotten a lot better for games. I've been having a good time with my steam deck and will probably try it on my desktop next time I rebuild my computer.
haileysteam works fine on linux, if you can figure out how to install steam on linux.
5 17David BuchananThis is why I run aarch64, even that doesn't work
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Natanael, Tech janitorSteam OS is based on Arch, by the way
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jackcomes in most package managers/software centres anyway (at least from every distro I’ve tried lol) — enable proton and you’re all good
1 3haileysure but what about the games
2 2Samuelapparently they all work now, the Steam Deck being linux based Valve decided to just fix it
3 8haileyi don’t know enough about this tbh but i’ve always been a little skeptical about “it works on steam deck” meaning “it works great on linux”. i’m sure it can work great on linux but i’ll be damned before i spend 3 weeks getting that working correctly 😭
3 7haileywith that said though i think steam deck incentivizing good operation on linux is dope
1 4jackyeah I think valve is also trying to pay some game studios to port it too?
1 1Natanael, Tech janitorI think there's some kind of incentive but Proton is pretty solid and I think valve is fine with devs testing against that, full porting isn't necessary unless you want to use native APIs
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NoahI have just like, regular Fedora on my laptop and steam installed fine, and every game that is verified on Steam Deck works fine.
Proton is a miracle, I swear.
4 4NoahI have a windows desktop that’s just for games that I haven’t touched in 3 years.
I’m actually stunned at how little work I have to put in to get things running.
The work Valve devs have done is crazy to me
2jackit’s insane how well proton works
at times it feels quicker for me on linux than windows
1 2Natanael, Tech janitorIn some cases it is!
At one point Elden Ring ran better on the Deck than on PC because Valve could make compatibility scripts to precompile shaders, which the game was doing on console but not PC versions
1 4NoahUgh, Elden Ring, another game that ran afoul of my “can’t play games that don’t pause” rule.
I’m sure it’ll still be fun in a few years, right?
Noah@ncallaway.bsky.social· 12 Aug 2024If I didn’t have kids, I might be tempted to play Valorant, which doesn’t work because to they install a windows rootkit of an anti cheat.
I can’t play games that don’t have a pause button anymore, though, so it’s a moo point
haileycool! this is definitely awesome news. i haven’t daily drove linux in a long time because of doing native mobile dev but i might have to get back into it at some point. there are some games i’d like to check out (and istg i cant use windows)
3 1jacki installed a macOS vm on linux mint lol
but i couldn’t get graphics acceleration to work
other than that pretty cool experiment
but yeah I don’t recommend that for you lol, you’d be running a vm of an iphone in a vm for macOS
1 2jackthat said asahi linux is pretty cool, if you wanted to try it on a silicon Mac.
it splits the partition to dual-boot it
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jackmost, not all
