It honestly makes me wonder why i keep using windows on my main desktop if proton allows playing most anything i play
It wasn’t always that way, but I’m glad proton is great now!
I only read of the rocky starts, i got mine with the recent steam sale at 10% off for the 64GB. Just need to get it a bigger SSD and I’ll be all set!
I used Linux before Steam came to Linux, those were the good old days where every game required tinkering in WINE. I actually didn’t have a Steam account until it came to Linux, and then I played only a handful of Linux-native games (Rocket League was one of them).
When Proton came to Steam, a whole new world opened up, and now I can basically assume a game will work and I’ll be right more often than not.
So from my perspective, it wasn’t a rocky start at all, but a gradual widening of my gaming library. I’ve since played a ton more games, so I’ve rewarded Steam for the effort.
I spent ages thinking that I’d found a title that didn’t work, getting barely double-digit frame rates in the 3D hub area.
And about two months later I realised that what I’d actually done was lock the laptop into low power mode with the CPU and GPU being way underclocked and locked to that regardless of load. One metaphorical switch flip later, 60+ fps.
A 1tb microSD card is a pretty good compromise. Its just as fast as ssd storage and significantly easier to install.
Yeah until you can’t fill up the SD because the boot drive is full of shaders.
256 GB deck should be the baseline tbh, even with an SD card
I would have to disagree that any sdcard is as fast as an SSD.
Maybe a really fast sdcard and a really slow SSD?
Edit: oh maybe that is a steam-deck-specific thing? It’s the SSD connection over USB2 or something?
I actually just installed Linux on my gaming PC and it’s mostly been a good experience.
Bought a second drive to run Linux on my gaming PC. It’s been a month and I haven’t had the need to boot into Windows yet. I had some initial troubles during installation but it’s smooth sailing since. After owning the Steam Deck for 1+ year and already running Linux on my laptop, it was the last step towards ditching Windows entirely.
I don’t have a Steam Deck, but I just made the transition to fully running Arch on my gaming rig. So far everything just works.
Lets say a major game comes out something like Elder Scrolls VI. Could I play it straight away in Linux or are we talking about older AAAs?
Ahh, the Steam Deck, the SBC handheld that I can’t afford yet.
