This is what finally made me actually consider playing my Epic library.

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Nice writeup, this made me realise why I subconsiously go straight to protobdb and never bother with Valve's verification system, and unfortunately I think that's probably our best bet for the problem for now; community contribution (as always with Linux, lol).

What I mean is, I think the solution to the problems of the Valve verification system are very expensive if not unfeasible. Like the article says, it's all on Valve, so to add more work to it on their side (for example, periodically re-test games or after every patch) is a little difficult to imagine, what's even more difficult and basically impossible to imagine is developers themselves supporting and testing for Proton, I've come to the conclusion that none of the big players care that much for the Steam Deck, sure they'll fix a bug or two, but that's as far as it goes. New game patch is out, but it breaks something on the Deck? Good luck getting that fixed any time soon, this'd basically require an internal team designsted to Steam Deck, which again, I don't think any of the big name developers will bother. The Deck is just too small of a platform for them to care for. Indie games will support the Deck/Proton if not make a Natibe build altogther, so no worry about those.

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The interface is so clean yet I always feel dirty using it. Just not for me.

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Is BattlEye compatible with Steam Deck?

Yes, it is.

Steam Deck does not support BattlEye for GTA Online.

Untrue and misleading.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyMany modern Linux-based operating systems are just as easy to use as a typical Microsoft Windows operating system these days (certain distros could probably even claim they're easier to use!)

Way easier. Linux is what you give your parents so that you don't need to do Windows tech support.

If Nvidia gave 1.5 shits and make a not-embarrassing driver, I would say the experience across the board would infact be piss easy, plug and play.

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It's literally just a couple games for me with these stupid AC problems (Siege and recently Battlefield). Other than that, rootkit riddled games can fuck off for all I care, it's good that the majority of them happen to be worthless eSports and Battle Royale/Extraction slop.

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Kept trying to load the Steam page for the games that are post-PSN, then I remembered Sony doesn't want to sell their crap here.

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Steam + Heroic, and Linux becomes a gaming powerhouse (sorry Lutris).

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Quoting: scaineand now my goddam principles are throwing them a middle finger.

This is the way.

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the development of PlaytronOS "directly contributes to the evolution of several open source projects".

I guess it could be truly beneficial for all at the end. But recently I've gotten really tired of the "it serves a greater cause, so anything bad that might happen is okay" notion. Web3 is the red flag for me here. But who knows, maybe with all that corporate backing, this could help with low hanging fruit such as anticheat on linux for example. We'll see.

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