Commercial engines support, SDL2, FNA, Vulkan, WINE/Proton, DXVK/DXVK native... Many options to offer some sort of Linux support on your game and yet some developers don't want to even hear about this. :sad:

No point trying to persuade them. If the Steam Deck is a massive success the numbers will eventually speak for themselves. Only then some developers might start considering Linux compatibility at day zero and adjusting their tools accordingly.

This is why Valve went with the compatibility layer strategy and I'm convinced it is the only way to reach a critical mass. Success is not guaranteed of course, so we're better enjoy the ride and not care so much about a developer saying nasty things like telling someone to install Windows. :grin:

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Worms Armageddon received an official patch to work with Proton/Wine.

worms armageddon 3.8 release notes [External Link]

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I think the easiest solution for gaming will be Steam Flatpak [External Link] available now at Flathub [External Link] and Lutris Flatpak [External Link] for other plataforms.

Steam Flatpak is running fine for me but I did not test many games, to be honest.

Lutris is on beta and depends on patches to Freedesktop SDK [External Link], Gnome Flatpak Runtime [External Link], and probably to Lutris itself.

So if/when all this comes together I don't think missing 32-bit packages will be so bad for Ubuntu and derivatives after all.

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Red Dead Redemption.

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Worth notting that accordding to Valve there are about 100 milion active accounts on Steam, not "just" 75 milion anymore.

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