If Proton is already so much better, why does Steam not reflect that in its auto-selection of compatibility tools? The average person doesn't care about Native Linux vs Proton or about age of games, they just want to play games. And if Linux experience is worse than Windows because of a broken Native port, they'll be quick to blame Linux for this fault

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I honestly can't comprehend why people keep bothering with 'Native Linux' to me it's just become synonymous to 'most likely broken'. Proton is a much more stable platform, here's some of my own experience:

- Dying Light Native version: unplayable, sent me into a neverending crash loop
- Rise of the Tomb Raider: controller did not work, unplayable on Steam Deck despite rated 'Playable'
- Portal 1: instantly crashes on AMD hardware unless you pretend you're on a Steam Deck or enable DXVK.
- Stardew Valley: display issues.
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: either did not launch at all, or couldn't get past launcher, or registered inputs that I didn't make.
- ARK Survival Evolved: missing textures

I don't own the new Silksong game but people also reported controller issues with Native that were solved by going to Proton.

None of these problems ever existed in the Proton(Windows) version of these games. Can someone tell me why I should bother with an inferior, more buggy version of games? Forcing the broken native ports on people (like Steam does for every Linux Native game) is actively making the Linux experience worse. I wished there was a global toggle in Steam to force every game to Proton.

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And still no beta version for desktops ¬¬

SteamOS is not meant for desktops (and most likely never will be), it's a very specialized operating system that only officially supports 2 handhelds. It's missing a ton of stuff you'd expect a regular desktop OS to have (like Nvidia drivers, printing support etc...). If you're looking for one, this is not it, you'd be better off with something like Bazzite that was inspired by SteamOS, but unlike the latter it works on nearly everything:tm: including virtually all x86 handhelds

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Z2 Extreme (and Z2 even more so) is a bad joke, 10-20% better performance than Z1 Extreme in games. It's not even RDNA4 so it can't use FSR4 upscaling. Lenovo you learn nothing from Valve. Don't just make a whole new device just for the sake of making a new one. There needs to be ACTUALLY A MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE BENEFIT for people to even bother with a new handheld especially when it's so extremely expensive. Sorry Lenovo but ~+5fps in games for a new chip, that's absolutely not worth it at all. The Z2E is still made on the same 4nm mode and uses the same TDP than Z1E which explains the meager uplift. Basically the only benefit that it has over Z1E is 4 more graphics compute units.

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Bazzite changed names twice over the past month or so, first "Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kionite/Silverblue" then "Bazzite (FROM Fedora Atomic" and now it's just "Bazzite". Which is the reason why their usage share is tanking right now, but it should stabilize over the next months or so

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I am really struggling to understand who this might be for, and I agree with the other comments - where would you get the SD Cards from? Noone is selling SD Cards pre-loaded with games.
I feel like the only way this could really work is if some company put it on a pre-built or Mini PC and bundled the 'console' with pre-loaded games. Because let's be real, the kind of person that has trouble navigating the Steam UI wouldn't typically install their own operating system on something that came with say, Windows. But then you'd still have the issue of only being able to play the games that shipped with the 'console' - it becomes an extremely restricted system, just like the OG console it's meant to imitate. You get none of the advantages of PC such as modding and access to a huge library of games all the way to the DOS era. And at this point, why even bother with something like this. Also, the target audience for this is just far more likely to buy something like, a Switch.
But on the PC side, I cannot see how this 'cartridge based system' is ever going to succeed when all games are digital only. And for this, I feel like Steam Gaming mode does a pretty good job of consolifying the experience, a simple, easy to use interface for launching your games

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So we went from 8GB VRAM in 2023...to 8GB VRAM in 2025. Amazing. At a time where game consume more and more VRAM, I find it baffling that Framework is not listening to their customers and bolstering planned obsolescence on their products. 8GB GPU in 2025 is basically guaranteed E e-waste in the near future.

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OMG I just love this distro so much! I installed in on my Ally X and was so impressed that all of my other devices (desktop, Nvidia Laptop, Intel Laptop) are all running Bazzite right now. It works extremely well. Forget about SteamOS, this is truly the next generation of Linux gaming:wub:

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I think the bigger question is, why does this keep happening? :wub: Someone at Valve needs to get in touch with the devs and figure out how they manage to keep breaking this game every time on Linux, so it can be avoided in the future. I don't think it's sustainable that Valve has to fix it every time again when it breaks.

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Are you using Linux Mint? What are your current thoughts on it?

In 2019 when I started with Linux, Mint was my first choice because of its alleged beginner-friendliness. However, I had so many issues with its usability (especially the Cinnamon DE) and eventually I stopped using it and went back to Windows. Now I tried it again a few days ago, a friend of mine is making a home server and I suggested Mint (this time the xfce edition). Unfortunately there's still a lot of issues, like Timeshift automatically making snapshots without even being configured, and no way to view which apps are installed in the application manager. Eventually we both gave up and installed Kubuntu instead which works much better. It's sad to see that it has not really improved. I consider Kubuntu a far more useable distro.

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