Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: DebianUser

Quoting: jordicomaUnsupported? This has more sense than on spanish "No compatibles" (no compatible), as many of these games works on my linux, even some are native.

Maybe unsupported only means that you do not have any support from the publisher ?
I agree not compatible is terrible.
The problem is that in this list, you have both : not compatibles, and compatibles but unsupported.

Unsupported reasons generally the following:

1. "Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck" - When you see this it usually refers to Proton features being worked on. In most cases this refers to mfplat support. There's a good chance these will work eventually.

2. "This game's anti-cheat is not configured to support Steam Deck" - Not Valve's problem, fire ze missiles at the dev/publisher.

3. "This game is unsupported on Steam Deck due to use of an unsupported anti-cheat" - Don't expect these to work any time soon.

4. "Steam Deck does not support VR games" - I mean, you can in theory get VR working on the deck, but the experience will be terrible.

5. Games that fail to start at all. Tried to find an actual example of this, but gave up.

I would agree, but why is Outlast, which I played through natively, appearing on my "unsupported" list?

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Quoting: TheRiddickGiven that feral games get removed off steam once license expires... I wouldn't be buying from them anyway.

They're not removed. You can still download them, you just can't buy them anymore. So it makes full sense to buy them before. I got some games that got "removed", and... why should I care?!?

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There's no official GOG support for SteamDeck. But since the device has an open architecture, as we understand, you can install Windows and as such also run GOG games.

... or run your native Linux games from GOG on it?!?

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: EikeDo we already no if "recommended_runtime: proton-stable" would result in ordinary Linux PCs using Proton by default as well?

We don't know for sure that they won't do that in the future, but there's no compelling reason to. That kind of decision for normal PCs would be down to the developer.

I think I would do that as Valve. Give the best default experience, allow to override.
(Ok, they would need two levels of override, devs/publishers and users. Might complicate things.)

Quoting: CatKiller

Yet another very interesting thing, also for Windows only gamers! "requires_internet_for_singleplayer"!

Not enough to stop a game getting Verified, but it does show up as a warning in the store.

Yeah, I meant, many people, including me, including many non-Deck and non-Linux gamers, are annoyed by that stuff, so it's a useful information for many people.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CatKillerAlso of interest is that HL2 gets the recommended_runtime: native attribute, unlike Portal 2 (currently).

Where can I look up such information?

Steamdb has it listed in the big information table.

Steam Deck Compatibility section at the bottom of this: https://steamdb.info/app/220/info/ [External Link]

Thanks!

Do we already no if "recommended_runtime: proton-stable" would result in ordinary Linux PCs using Proton by default as well?

*edit* Interestingly, the first game I looked up (Life is Strange 2) does not have a "recommened_runtime" set...
https://steamdb.info/app/532210/info/ [External Link]

*edit2*
Yet another very interesting thing, also for Windows only gamers! "requires_internet_for_singleplayer"!

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Quoting: CatKillerAlso of interest is that HL2 gets the recommended_runtime: native attribute, unlike Portal 2 (currently).

Where can I look up such information?

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The lookup page seems to have gotten an upgrade: Date of last change, and last state as tooltip.
And you can lookup your wish list as well. (It might mark unreleased games though. :D )

Where would I look up what's Steam's favorite way to run a game, like Proton (with version?) or native?

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Quoting: MohandevirAs for the other 1/4, most will dualboot and a small minority will replace SteamOS with Windows. I have even witnessed a Windows fanboy starting to change it's point of view and then having doubts about stripping SteamOS.

Like I said, gut feeling from reactions I read/see, but it feels positive.

Valve seem to have really nailed it, this time.

Good job!

Sounds good, thanks for telling.
I'm surprised people are thinking about dual booting though.
Did they tell why they would want to keep a Linux partition when they are doing the work of installing Windows?

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Quoting: scaineProbably because... why would anyone turn the steam overlay off, unless its known to cause problems (about 2 games in my 1000+ library)?

I used to turn it off because I didn't want any popups (like achievements) for better immersion.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: TheBardMost games runs better on proton than natively.

[citation needed]

Note that there are 9,612 [External Link] native games on Steam today, so you need to show that at least 4,807 of them work better through Proton on all hardware.

I think he meant the native ports. And he is right there. I have had better experience with a number of games using Proton than using the native port.

... and so does CatKiller. If you say "most" of the native ported games work better on Proton, you at least need to have tested with a majority of them.

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