It is true, Steam Deck has made me enjoy gaming again. There are still things I would better play on my big PC, but overall with so many games being really playable while relaxing in bed or couch it is very hard to beat. I started to clear my backlog of strategy games, finally being able to enjoy time with them instead of fighting tiredness of sitting at the front of big screen.
Considering how modular Steam Deck is, I wouldn't worry too much about next gen. Yes, there will be games that will be just terrible on SD. You can't win them all. I will take sleek, well running, well configured out of the box set of 2 - 5 thousand games over next big title every day. They are important, but not that important.

Added: also it is worth noting that such high end niche could be filled by other vendor stepping in.

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Really happy to see Zink making strides, as I feel long term goal of all of it will be moving all major OpenGL implementations to Vulkan translation and ensure long term support of OpenGL apps and games.

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Having prepared downloadable shaders was one of Vulkan promises and tbh I am really excited to see delivery on that. We can speculate how serious Valve is about SteamOS, but they seem to be working in right direction nevertheless.

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Quoting: ShmerlFor the reference, GOG version of Bioshock Infinite doesn't work in stock Wine, but works in Wine staging (you also need xact override, since staging builds disable faudio).

Bioshock Infinite native version works perfectly for me, never had issues with it (besides Unreal engine texture popin, which is easy to fix).

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Just year and half ago we discussed Wine with friends and they said yeah, this will never run my Windows games reliably.

Cue today and oh god how things have changed. Valve might struggle with control over Steam curation, but this was right decision at right time. Thank you!

Linux gaming is getting there. Hard to even believe after all these years.

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Quoting: jayUnless they're going to announce a new vendor deal, I'd say that the original report of Steam Machines being dead is correct. What I glean from the article is that they learned a lot regarding Linux and Vulkan support through the Steam Machine initiative, and will take what they learned to other initiatives (among them, continuing Linux support). So yeah, looks like Steam Machines are dead. I hope I am wrong.

In fact Valve announcement says while there's no new vendors and current lineup doesn't sell like hot cakes, it still goes on and they learn quite a lot of work with vendors and game developers.

So calling them dead is not correct. Stagnant - sure. But not dead.

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Through the Steam Machine initiative, we've learned quite a bit about the state of the Linux ecosystem for real-world game developers out there. We've taken a lot of feedback and have been heads-down on addressing the shortcomings we observed. We think an important part of that effort is our ongoing investment in making Vulkan a competitive and well-supported graphics API, as well as making sure it has first-class support on Linux platforms.

This is what I exactly wanted to hear.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/ [External Link]

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Infrastructure weren't ready.

It is a bit more ready now, but still lots to improve.

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Quoting: mike44Tried it quickly but even with my GTX1070 and highest settings the text etc. is hardly readable.
Any ideas?

Change resolution :)

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I have to say - impressive! F1 2017 runs very smoothly on my GTX 760 and I remembered as a game that requires quite beefy hardware. And then I realized it uses Vulkan! Amazing!

Very temped to shell out for it. I haven't driven around with lot of games lately, but this looks very good.

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