Quoting: stormtuxI do not think Valve is preoccupied of this device, I think they are enthusiastic about it.

This is full of win for Valve. The biggest chunk of the games to be played on this device are going to be bought on Steam, which is money in Valve's pocket. Someone else is shouldering the logistics task of expanding the number of handheld gaming devices, which puts more pressure on game developers to address things like controller support and text size on a tiny screen. And even with direct support from Microsoft to hit this price point, all the reviews are saying, "you know what? Windows is kinda crap; Linux is way better." The only thing that could make Valve happier is if Asus release a subsequent version that comes with Linux instead.

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Quoting: EikeIs this sort of a counterstrike(*) by Microsoft as well? ASUS cannot hand out game passes without an agreement with Microsoft, and MS could be interested in fighting that the PC handheld market is Linux dominated at the moment...

(*) Is it a global offensive already? :-D

Microsoft are a strategic partner for this device - lots of cross-promotion and likely Microsoft paid them to have Windows on it rather than the other way round. So much so that Asus aren't sure they're contractually allowed to support the hardware after a user has installed Linux on it. Both parties appear to have assumed that everyone will simply fawn over Windows and ignore the reality of what it's like to use in comparison to Linux.

Edit: sauce [External Link]

Speaking of rivalries, Microsoft may have also precluded the ROG Ally’s SteamOS possibilities: “our partner for this device is Microsoft, it’s primarily made as a Windows device, and it’s made only as a Windows device,” says Krohn. But he’s not sure if the deal precludes Asus from supporting SteamOS if users install it themselves.

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Quoting: constDoes it even have gyro?

It has a gyro, but the Asus software doesn't let you use it. To be fair, the same was true of the Steam Controller at launch.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Logged in just to say the same thing but you beat me to it.:wink:

This excuse is old and very inaccurate. I've plenty of native Linux games which run perfectly fine on a number of distros, and if the Roblox devs want to make it easy on themselves they could just target a slightly older Ubuntu distro.

They don't even need to do that: Valve have abstracted away the library differences between distros with the Steam Linux Runtime [External Link]. Build against those libraries and it doesn't matter what the distros do - your game is run in a container isolated from the system libraries.

Testing on Ubuntu as your target platform is still sensible, of course, as the popular distro with conservative updates (the same reasons Valve picked it as the basis for the SLR).

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Quoting: GuestMaybe I spent too much time on Reddit. It seems any time it's come up people rally behind that idea and argue/downvote anyone otherwise.

Any time spent on Reddit is too much time spent on Reddit.

But people do claim that Proton is better than native, even here, which is unfortunate.

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it’s not worthwhile if it makes it easy for exploiters to cheat.

That's a hell of an assumption right there.

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Linux native, controller support, and slower paced: they should definitely look at getting that green tick as soon as they're able. How does it play on the Deck? I'll keep an eye on this one for the little one: he loves puzzle games.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI wonder when RTS developers will get around to targeting the (clearly larger) pool of single player RTS gamers again with a title that offers a bit more replayability than "play through campaign once".

It's been a while... and meanwhile, almost every RTS that went for the multiplayer crowd and did not have a big name like StarCraft or AoE behind it just straight failed - without competitors ever seemingly learning from each other's failures.

Northgard has this: there's the story mode, then the additional story mode that they added recently, and a whole chunk of per-clan challenges. Plus generic skirmish mode.

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Quoting: elmapultesting MMO then... is a impossible feat.

hopefully valve should have contacts in the industry that allow then to "cheat" in games, like using bots to test the entire game, playing in private servers to not affect other users, skiping parts of the game that were already tested, geting save states for any part of the game and so on.
gaining exp/leveling up faster than the normal, acessing any area or item...
right... right?

What Valve really need is for game developers to do the testing themselves - game devs are testing the games already anyway, they just need to also have Linux/Deck as part of their testing pipeline. They need to build up momentum before that will be a reality. But Valve literally can't do it all themselves, especially when some developers seem to go out of their way to break things with their launchers and whatnot.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSounds like it needs Glorious Eggroll. But that's weird that it'd be considered 'Verified' as I think that should mean that it needs zero tweaks to get it to run 100%.

Despite Valve's lofty goals, the testing is patchy - particularly for things that happen later in the game. MGS5 had some in-game videos that were bugged under Wine - you'd get a frame every couple of seconds and broken audio - that was unfixed for years, and they gave that a green tick long before it got fixed because the first video doesn't come in until after the very long tutorial section.

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