Can’t believe Valve pulled it off, honestly. Multi-year project to make Linux gaming a reality and then they launched it and not only did everyone love it, but they still love it. Honeymoon phase has worn off and people are still down with the Steam Deck. Even normies like it, not just Linux nerds.
My steam deck is still regularly used. I can’t say the same for my switch.
It’s just so versatile in what it can do, since it’s a PC at its core.
And being able to play a vast majority of my library, then pick it up later on my main PC if I wish is a huge bonus.
I love relaxing on my couch and still being able to play.
Plus there’s barely a reason to use a switch with how well yuzu runs. And come steamOS 3.5 and its SMT fix, yuzu will run even better.
I haven’t really used Yuzu, mostly because I don’t know where to get switch games nowadays.
I’d say if you intend to use it as a portable PC (as in, bringing a keyboard and mouse, or even using it with an external monitor as well), then it can play simcity or civ well.
If you’re intending to just use it as a handheld, then no, the Witcher 3 would be a better style of game for it. Touchscreen just isn’t the same for a mouse-heavy game.
I got my steam deck back in May of last year. It’s held up really well and it’s been my primary gaming device. It’s basically gotten me back into gaming.
I’m considering installing ChimeraOS on my living room HTPC
Is it possible yet for me to swap fully to linux if 99% of what I do on my PC is games? The only desktop app I use is photoshop but as long as there’s a decent replacement not a real deal breaker.
Nobara OS takes care of most setup. The few games that don’t run on Linux yet are ones with anticheat that don’t support Linux (Valorant and R6S are the biggest iirc); you’d probably get banned or something if you tried to run those on Linux right now.
Gimp is great as a photoshop substitute, but takes alot of getting used to cuz the UI is just not as good imo. Most other productivity software either support Linux already (obs, blender etc), or there are equivalent or superior alternatives (like davinci and krita instead of premiere and clip studio).
You can run Photoshop through a VM though, and actually get pretty similar performance.
Thanks for the recommendation, looks good. I guess I have one more qualm too; what’s like the track record for smaller distros like this? I figure stuff like Linux mint and debian have a pretty good track record for updates; what’s it like for something like Nobara? Will I be able to run it for a few years without fear of updates just stopping one day and my os just goes defunct? Thanks!
If not for HDR support on Linux, I’d run it for gaming too. As it stands, it’s a dual boot/vm for productivity, and win for gaming. Hopefully soon.
