I love this. My steam deck has been a life saver and all these changes also let's me game on my desktop.
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has it been that good? i wasn’t sure about it but maybe i’ll have to re visit it if it’s stood the test of a bit of time.
Its absolutely that good. Yes sometimes you need to tinker but there are very active communities to help even install non steam games. I bought early as i was very hopeful and now i game on it more than my desktop by far. Lounging, dock to tv, on a plane im a huge fan
It's amazing.
It has the ease of console with (nearly) the library of PC.
I've been able to play current AAA titles, and the original Monkey Island.
It can Emulate pretty much everything the console market has as well (I mean, the stuff that a PC can emulate No Xbox One / Series X/S or PS 4/5).
And two features that don't seem as useful as they are.
It's a dedicated device for gaming
Its sleep mode works well
This means I can just pick it up, play for 10 Minutes until I get called to do something else again, pause, put it to sleep, and pick it up a week later.
I use it to play pretty much whatever I want to play while I am away from the house. I use it to play Northgard in the evenings on the couch with my wife and I dock it to the TV to let the kids play Human Fall Flat, Brawlhalla, Untitled Goose Game and Golf With Your Friends.
It Lets me sit on the deck and play diablo while the kids are playing in the yard.
I am also an avid linux desktop user so I get to play all this stuff on my gaming PC when I get the chance as well.
It's great to see so many games, including new games being verified. I have moved all of my gaming devices over to Linux and have almost no issues playing games.
It's amazing what Valve has done for Linux on the game front. I switched to Linux in 2005, and back then it was so bad, you practically had to dual boot to game. When I stopped dual booting, and went heavy with custom Wine configurations for each game, it was still like a walk in the desert.
Now Linux gaming is absolutely amazing IMO, maybe not quite on par with Windows, but sometimes it actually works better on Linux for old games, because compatibility with old 32 bit Dos based Windows, is better with Wine or Proton, than using original Windows later than Windows 98.
I feel spoiled because I only joined back in early 2022. Things were pretty good back then and things have only gotten better. The biggest issues now are mostly multiplayer games with anti-cheat that do not support Linux.
I'm glad to see it. I have been using Garuda and Endeavour OS machines as my daily drivers and haven't been happier. Nowadays I really can't even tell the difference (game incompatiblities aside).
With the "Cloud Windows OS" news recently makes me happy that I got away from it completely (a few games and software aside).