I specifically did so I can use any game service beyond Steam without hacking stuff. I know I can turn on my Ally and use Steam, Gamepass, roms, sail the high seas, virtually anything, out of the box.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's no "hacking" involved to use non-steam services on the Deck. Except maybe gamepass but since Microsoft is making that shitty now is it really that important lol?

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you want to play anything with anticheat, you can't on a steamdeck. And gamepass was my number one reason to not get a steamdeck. I play Xbox too, I might as well get the most bang for my buck if I already subscribe.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Sea of Thieves has a shit ton of Tumbleweed reviews on protondb. You should read them. There's also a fair amount of other distros that say they work fine. Now my own anecdotal experience, I couldn't get anything to work on my arch install. But I was dumb as hell and didn't want to use a desktop environment on a desktop.

[–] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

About half of games with anticheat work on Linux: https://areweanticheatyet.com/

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know there are working ones, unfortunately all but overwatch don't work from current games I play.

This was all in response to why anyone would choose a windows machine. I'm a use case that needs windows. I don't love that I do, but it is what it is.