I poked around a bit and discovered that the "SteamOS + Linux" category is also broken when viewing independently in a normal web browser.

It does appear to be broken. In the mobile app you get

"Web page not available
The web page at https://store.steampowered.com/linux?snr=1_12_74_ [External Link] could not be loaded because:

net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE"

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Not that I necessarily mind but can anyone tell me, is this normal?

It's a standard package management thing that if a version of a package is losing support for whatever reason then having that package will instead pull in a newer version that does have support. You won't normally be moved between branches otherwise.

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It's all I use it for.

That's sad. You should definitely try to make time for recreational gaming, and the Deck is a great device for that.

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CodeWeavers' Meredith Johnson notes how "we envisage CrossOver as a viable solution for migrating enterprise Windows workloads to Linux for improved security and reduced bloat".

Steam on Arm machines also seems like a tastier prospect now this work's been done.

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It's currently rated Steam Deck Verified by Valve

It's the native build that's Verified on the Deck, so dropping that is a pain for everyone.

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Steam must make use of extensive compression because downloading and installing Steam games drives my CPU fan to be audible.

It's not compression, it's delta-patching. The updates are the diffs between the old files and the new. After you've downloaded the diffs your computer uses that data to create the new files from the parts.

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Proton Hotfix is the extra special version of Proton that gets very sporadic updates, specifically when a game needs them so you shouldn't really touch it unless you need to.

It's the gaffer tape and chewing gum build of Proton.

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Interesting that MacOS usage went up as well, been a while since that's happened.

It's been trending back up since around the start of the year.

It's a smidge behind non-Deck Linux.

A bigger non-Windows share (above 5% for the first time since 2013) is a good thing for encouraging multi-platform development and support, although Apple makes it harder than it needs to be with their refusal of Vulkan, and harder than it used to be when OpenGL would work on Windows, Linux and Mac.

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Hopefully sensible defaults for this

Added UI scaling option

will fix this

it's rated Steam Deck Playable.

since it's small text that stops it getting the green tick.

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But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Everything. The current branch (580) has Maxwell support. They've said that they'll drop pre-Turing from the next branch, though, whenever that happens, after which 580 will be a legacy branch.

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