Quoting: GuestIt's quite a non-committal answer, the sort you get from politicians.

Judging from investment and effort, it very much looks like Valve prefer "Proton". Just easier for them, makes complete sense. Supposedly however the Deck isn't as closed up as consoles, so it shouldn't matter what Valve want - it should matter what the community wants, what developers want.

How is it non-committal? And how is Proton easier for Valve? The constantly have to update it and work on it to make new games working. Native games would be easier for them.

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: kuhpunktA lot of games relatively speaking isn't enough when you can't play most of the modern games.

You can just install Windows, which is what people do with custom built PCs.

Which has nothing to do with the entire discussion? We're talking about Linux.

On a minor point, I really think "most of the modern games" is not a good phrase. Linux has more native games than any current-gen console, and a large part of those games are "modern" - developed recently, with current tools, current themes, current genres, some with innovative ideas that had not been seen before. It's not like they are all emulated old games (and there are extremely few old native games), or even retro-styled games. What Linux didn't have was most of the AAA games, most of the popular big names with large budgets, which is completely different. Or, if you compare only with Windows and not with console, "most of the games" in general. But implying that small games and indie games aren't "modern" is a very narrow view.

Yeah and those native games are mostly from smaller teams etc... where is Witcher 3 as a native for Linux? You didn't have it back then.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: kuhpunktA lot of games relatively speaking isn't enough when you can't play most of the modern games.

Well, it was (and still is) enough for me.
Not enough to make lots of people change system though.

And that's the problem. If you can't just click and play GTA5, Fifa, Call of Duty, Dark Souls and all the other stuff, you won't reach the mass market. That just was not possible back then and a few AA games like Metro were just not enough.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: kuhpunktSteam Machines didn't work, because there was no software to play - because devs didn't want to port. That's the whole reason why Valve put so much effort into Proton.

I can argue the opposite. Devs didn't want to port becasue Steam Machines didn't work. Software stack wasn't ready. Marketing was non existent, potential sales didn't look promising and so on. It was too early. Proton isn't the main point here even though it helps of course.

Even more so, a number of devs actually did port, we got a lot of games (relatively speaking) from that time in particular. Only afterwards, because Steam Machines flopped, some of those were disappointed and didn't make subsequent ports. Not all, though, it worked out for many. Steam machines failed devs, not the opposite.

The Steam Machines just weren't very compelling. It was a prebuilt PC at normal value with the Steam brand. SteamOS was certainly a disadvantage for most people, but I don't think "have to manually install Windows" was the one big problem for the audience.

A lot of games relatively speaking isn't enough when you can't play most of the modern games.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: kuhpunktSteam Machines didn't work, because there was no software to play - because devs didn't want to port. That's the whole reason why Valve put so much effort into Proton.

I can argue the opposite. Devs didn't want to port becasue Steam Machines didn't work. Software stack wasn't ready. Marketing was non existent, potential sales didn't look promising and so on. It was too early. Proton isn't the main point here even though it helps of course.

Steam Machines were overpriced hardware with no incentive to buy, when you could just download the OS and install it. I have a Steam Machine here - didn't pay a single cent for it.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: kuhpunktBecause it's not a priority. It clearly didn't work in the past.

That worked just fine. Steam Machines didn't work. That's not the same as teaching games developers to release for Linux.

Steam Machines didn't work, because there was no software to play - because devs didn't want to port. That's the whole reason why Valve put so much effort into Proton.

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Quoting: ShmerlWhat's lacking is their "porting to Linux" talks they did in the past (it was called "Steam dev days" I think?). That's not a very good sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8ie5R4CVE [External Link]

Because it's not a priority. It clearly didn't work in the past.

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yuzu does what Nintendon't

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Got it for 1€ on some Humble Choice I think and put 60h in. Pretty fun game.

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Really curious about Vapor. I mean they already have Luna... is anybody using that?

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