I know logically that people can do whatever they want and it doesn't affect me in any way so I shouldn't care, but I do still get a visceral eye-twitching feeling whenever someone talks about installing Windows on a Steam Deck. It's like someone buying a sports car and using it to tow a caravan or something.

[–] wfh@lemm.ee 48 points 4 months ago

It's like buying an electric sports car and immediately converting it to diesel.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People fear what they don't know. Valve has made Linux gaming stupid easy and still people are more worried about FOMO of that small percentage of games that don't run on Linux. Maybe we'll see a shift if someone releases a banger game that's designed to be really really good on steam deck (so Linux exclusive, basically) and have it out in Linux for a few months before the windows version comes out

[–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 8 points 4 months ago

Valve has made Linux gaming stupid easy and still people are more worried about FOMO of that small percentage of games that don't run on Linux.

Unfortunately, most of the non-working games are also the ones people tend to have FOMO about. I feel like they're mostly online games with anti-cheats which, by their online nature, means that you will feel really missing out when all of your friends except you play the game, more so than single player games.

[–] prole@beehaw.org 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Dude, same. I cannot understand it (for games. I'm sure people have valid reasons if they're using the Deck for some other purpose). It seems there is a cohort of otherwise relatively tech savvy people who are just terrified of all things "Linux."

Maybe they heard horror stories from friends or family while growing up and aren't aware of just how close to complete compatibility Proton is. In fact, in some cases, it can somehow run games better than if one were to dual boot and install in Windows.

Even Valve's own Steam Deck verification should be taken with a grain of salt, it seems as though they're being extra conservative with those. I've gotten several "unsupported " games working (very easily), for example , Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is listed on Steam as "unsupported," but it works great (with DSFix even) on my Deck.

ProtonDB is a far better resource for anyone reading this who hadn't heard of it.

But yeah, it's almost like this subconscious aversion to Linux. And they want to be in their comfort zone I guess.

[–] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean there’s a time and a place.

What if someone has gamepass or a ton of free games on EGS?

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can't you play both of those from SteamOS?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unsure about EGS, but Gamepass can only stream via xcloud on non-microsoft platforms

The GP app/store for installing games locally is only available on Windows

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

EGS you definitely can with Heroic Launcher. I got Death Stranding for free on Epic and played it on Steam Deck using that.

[–] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You can play non streamed games on steamos now?

Edit: Gamepass games

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can play non streamed games on steamos now?

Non streamed? You mean just running the game on the device? You could run games on steamos since it first released in 2013.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

He means from Gamepass. On many non-microsoft platforms, the only way to play Gamepass games is streaming via xcloud

On Windows, Gamepass games can be installed locally from the GP app, but last I checked the GP app was still Windows-only

[–] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I was referring to game pass games. They're exclusive to windows because they're built as windows apps or something.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

The only times it's OK are when it's planned for specific softwares. For example, I can't run Rocksmith 2014 on native Deck but it works fine in Windows. Similarly, software that's OS limited would be another use.

But if your main thing is gaming, and you aren't dual booting... Yeah, I'm judging you. (And I mainly use Windows on PC. But why, why, why would you need to only run Windows on a Steam Deck without a specific purpose