Quoting: ArtenDon't forget valve is not a publicly traded company. It's not a company with a million anonymous shareholders, but with a limited number that knows each other.

Yes that's why they can safely invest in a new concept like this one. Valve is in a unique position where they're consolidate as the top game store in the world and doesn't have shareholders to answer too, but this doesn't mean they don't want profit.

If for some reason investing on linux would result only in expenses they would never invest on it.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI think "very good" is enough for a company worth billions to do a bit of bell-ringing.

"a bit of bell-ringing" indeed, a little persuasion is different from "heavily incentivize" companies to do the port, which is like some people are thinking it's happening.

Quoting: Purple Library Guythey're doing a major project launch and one of their repeated claims, which will make a significant difference to sales

-Sales of deck devices? of course (those are already sold for now)

-More games? maybe not so much, because most of the games people will play on deck they bough already (without Linux AC support) so developers may think it's not worth to spend money on support another platform for games people already bough anyway. The only case most of the developers would have a reason to properly support by proton / native is if steam deck consolidates as platform like other consoles in the mainstream, to people outside the Linux bubble start to ask for it too, specially if this demands results in possible new sales.

Also like I said before in other deck article, it costs $0,00 for developers to say to users "just install windows on it" making this a possible threat for Linux support.

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Quoting: AussieEeveeIt's more than just an opinion.

I don't doubt that he truly thinks Linux it's better (even Microsoft knows this), my main point is that Valve in the end of the day it's a company, and their main goal is to make money, so it's different to us (as users) who truly wants to support Linux for personal preferences.

Valve is contributing a lot to Linux and this is a fact, it's just that they're not doing this for ideological reasons like some people in the Linux community thinks so.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. I could have sworn I'd heard something on the interwebs about Valve planning on releasing some kind of device that ran games on Linux, and hoping to sell quite a few of them. The "Steam Duck" or something. Maybe I was dreaming it.

Think on this as a car company (steam store) trying to sell their cars together with their insurance (steam deck)

They may not sell so many insurances to their clients, but this wont make they bankrupt because even if people don't buy their insurance, they're still selling their cars (which are their main product that holds the company)

You can also think that they'll also profit if they can sell insurance for cars not made by them (people installing windows on deck to play games from other stores) so they're really not losing so much here.

My point with this analogy is to say that since Steam deck (and steam for linux) are not their main revenue sources, they don't need to push so much other developers to support Proton (or make native linux builds).

It's very good for them if they do, but "it's ok" if they don't

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Quoting: AussieEeveeFinancially, no. But Gaben seems to have made it his mission to make gaming on Linux a reality, so I would still expect Valve to try.

Personally I think "his mission" as you said is the same as it has always been: Keeping Steam on the throne of the game stores.

Linux it's more of a guarantee that they can be independent of their potential competitor (aka Microsoft) if they need to, and while I wish your opinion to be the truth I really think that this vision of "Valve's being the savior of Linux on desktop" that the community seems to have a bit too much.

Which of course doesn't change the fact that their efforts are benefiting the Linux gaming for sure, so it's something of win-win situation.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI would be really surprised if Valve were unable to persuade those people to enable their anticheat to work with Proton.

The fact that they don't need to is the key point, remember that most of the profit from steam comes from Windows users so Valve isn't losing anything from developers not supporting Proton.

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Sadly 9 of the top 15 games are borked, and some of them (like csgo) often have problems with the linux version. This is what it needs to be "fixed" to make Linux a respected choice for a gaming setup, because unfortunately in general it's more worthy to have the most popular ones running than thousands of small indie games who almost nobody play.

Hope this opt-in AC can somehow remedy this situation.

Also Liam you should include in your post that Phasmophobia requires Cortana to use the voice functions of the game, so you kinda can play it with proton but you won't be able to speak with the ghosts.

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As a big fan of Half Life series, and resident of a third world country, I'm excited to be able to play this game without having to wait 10 years for it.

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I think AMD FSR will really shine on this device (and higher resolutions on small screens are placebo) and those results are very good, specially considering that none of those games were optimized by the developers to run on deck (yet).

The only concern now is the battery time, if it lasts for at least 3 hours then it's already a success in my book :)

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Quoting: STiATI think with EAC being from EA

Epic*

Quoting: gustavoyaraujoAll of this because of Valve and their idea to put the Linux as the default OS for Steam Deck.

All of this because Microsoft wanted to make Windows more similar to a smartphone, it's always amazing how the butterfly effect works.

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