I have a Steam Deck, and I love it. It can handle 90% of my library, and it’s always improving.

I decided to try out a linux distro for my OS, because the biggest drawback has always been the hoops that I had to jump through to get games up and running. I went for Pop OS, since that seemed to be natively friendly with NVidia, and the lowest barrier for entry. However, in Steam, I see that there is a much more limited selection of games compatible with my system. Is there a way around that, to get the same selection as my Steam Deck? Or is it this way because the Steam Deck is a singular platform that is developed for based on specific architecture?

  • Keegen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You need to go to Steam settings and enable Steam Play for all titles, otherwise Steam will only show you native/verified games as playable.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Also I seem to remember doing the same on my Deck a while back, possibly he also did it there but forgot about it since this is a do once and never again thing.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 months ago

        It probably should be at this point. The opposite made a ton of sense when Steam Play was new and most games didn’t work, but now the opposite is true (at least in my experience).

        • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I think the reason it’s opt-in is so that people don’t feel like they’ve been ripped off/lied to when they buy a game thinking they are getting a native experience

          • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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            7 months ago

            Which is even funnier because a lot of the times the native builds run worse, if at all, and it is typically recommended to just use Proton. Native clients unfortunately mean jack shit if they aren’t properly supported and maintained by the developers, which is why I’m not too fazed whenever people were warning that Proton will cause fewer native titles. Like, have you seen the Linux gaming market pre Proton? It was not pretty, not even with Wine, but especially with just native titles only. Can’t tell me they would rather go back to that instead of the current situation.

              • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                7 months ago

                No. But Apple has built an alternative, although devs need to do some work to get their games running. That said, Mac gaming is even less popular than Linux Gaming, so don’t expect a good catalogue.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    If you like Linux and you end up staying, next time buy AMD, everything will be easier and ready out of the box.