Mastodawn

e-ratic Aug 14, 2023

Dear Steam deck pirates, what's your current setup?

I bought a refurbished steam deck finally and am thinking about what my ahem acquisition workflow will be. This is what I'm thinking from my past experience daily driving Linux (arch btw):... #piracy #steam #steamos #linux #arch #gaming

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I bought a refurbished steam deck finally and am thinking about what my ahem acquisition workflow will be. This is what I'm thinking from my past experience daily driving Linux (arch btw):...

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Hugucinogens

Honestly, because troubleshooting gets annoying for me when I want to play a game, I have made a brain-dead algorithm for how to play games on the deck, and it looks like this:

Do I want to buy it on Steam? If not,

If it runs in Windows, just download and install in Windows, and then (Warpinator) it into the deck. Add shortcut to steam, use latest stable proton. That’s it. You’re done.

W-wait… It doesn’t run natively on Windows? (Old af games like Touhou 6). Just Bottles it, and finagle with the setup a bit, that’s gonna take some effort.

As a general rule, proton is a beast, and I have stopped bothering with Linux native piracy entirely.