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Are non technical steam deck users going to have to plug into a monitor and work out how to 'Linux' and get the client installed.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/proton
They also try to mitigate the jank by saying that launchers should be in something like Qt rather than Windows-only stuff, and provide a function in the SDK to plonk the controller into KB/M mode to deal with the launcher, but they really would rather devs didn't give them the headache in the first place.
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Hopefully EA sees reason and swaps Origin with the EA App on their Steam releases as well. If I understand their Trello correctly, they're working on some sort of silent background running to launch games, question mark?
Would be better than having the user pop open the on-screen keyboard and log in to Origin/EA App.
Last edited by ridge on 22 October 2021 at 2:35 pm UTC