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[–] TechAdmin 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would love a new Steam Machine and could actually be good this time. Proton didn't exist when they released the original Steam Machines which limited you to linux ports of games. I had bought two but wiped & did clean installs of Windows 7 so we could play all the games wanted to.

Before Proton, gaming on linux relied on native ports or WINE. Native ports were rare & not always better. WINE took some learning to make work well but I dunno, never got any good at it.

[–] havokdj 1 points 1 year ago

Even more rare was a port that was up to date with the windows branch if ever updated at all.

Man I tell you, the early 2000's was actually a great time for Linux gaming, it only really went downhill around the early 2010's

[–] LUHG_HANI 1 points 1 year ago

I have a suspicion that they are making something. In an interview about the steam deck refresh one of the engineers mentioned how they couldn't find an AMD apu that was efficient and powerful enough to warrant making a steam deck 2, he said not in this chassis anyway. Insinuating they know of one for a different chassis. Pinch of salt.