Quoting: peta77But those, that started and still care about games only, aren't always so Linux friendly. They mainly care about platforms with high market share and consider others as irrelevant / uncapable.

I wrote a mail to Gamestar back then when we were excited about Steam Machines. They published it and answered that they consider it and will take a look if the concept will lift off. No stupid decision to be honest, it's all still too niche...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat's actually a pretty solid article. It's like the person writing it had some idea what they were talking about. What a weird feeling. Is this normal in German IT news?

I guess we've got our share of bad writers, but the reason they survived to become the biggest (shrinking the least) is quality.

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I'll link an article here. Heise is the publisher of Europe's biggest (paper) IT magazine, "c't".

Steam Deck: Linux gaming made easy

With the announcement of its mobile game console, Valve is making its Steam library mobile and, on the fly, makes the buyers Linux gamers.

Original, in German [External Link]

Google translation [External Link]

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Something has broken paging here. I get empty pages of comments 12, 13 and 14...

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Quoting: MohandevirTalking about games...

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-says-it-hasnt-found-a-game-steam-deck-cant-handle/ [External Link]

Should we take for granted that these tests have been done on SteamOS 3.0?

If so, what major breakthrough have they been able to achieve, with Proton, that they didn't share with us, yet? If not, what a major let down!

They're only talking about performance, not compatibility.
I bet this has been done on Windows.

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Quoting: GuestThis whole thing is so fake, it's not like making/compiling drivers for other cpu architectures is anything new. On the contrary, this should be the bare minimum for all the arches out there. I wonder whats the profit angle on this one.

Making drivers for other architectures is a piece of cake?
You're serious?

I didn't say that.

Ok, I missunderstood you than. Yes, they could if they want (ed) to.

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Quoting: denyasisAre people here upset that proton is possibly reducing the number of native ports or are you more update that proton/wine is possibly creating a platform independent target for devs to aim at where the standard is Windows?

I don't think you can really separate this. The problem with not having native ports is that the standard for the others (running on Proton) is Windows. You're literally running .exe files on Linux. With Unity or Godot or the like, you get Linux binaries.

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Better not always on, better not compete with mouse players, better be playable in short sittings...
Portal?

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it will be interesting to see if more developers hop on the bandwagon (and we say that in the nicest way possible)

Dear developers, feel invited to our bandwagon, please take a cookie!

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Quoting: GuestThis whole thing is so fake, it's not like making/compiling drivers for other cpu architectures is anything new. On the contrary, this should be the bare minimum for all the arches out there. I wonder whats the profit angle on this one.

Making drivers for other architectures is a piece of cake?
You're serious?

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