petsoiOver 11,000 games now rated Steam Deck Playable
lemmyseizethemeansTvo words: fuck yeah
Vell I agree!
MEGA TO THA HAADKORE
And even more are playable on a non-Deck Linux! Itās glorious.
Excellent although the actual number of playable games is plenty higher :)
And many of the āunsupportedā games work just fine, sometimes with a small tweak like forcing a specific Proton version.
EliseGabe Newell > All those other people in the news that I canāt seem to get away from
Reminder to install ProtonDB Badge on your Steam Deck (via PowerTools). ProtonDB has a vastly larger database of reports, with hints how to improve performance or e.g. fix issues with cutscenes.
Would love to see this incorporated as something like āCommunity Verification Statusā, but this works great as well.
Correct me if Iām wrong but I believe ProtonDB Badge and PowerTools are both plugins for Decky Loader. Still both useful, but PowerTools isnāt required for ProtonDB Badge to work
Youāre 100% right, thanks. Iāve corrected my comment.
By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)
Pretty much. Out of the ~380 games in my library, there are only a handful that outright donāt work (excluding those which use anticheat).
Thereās a bunch that doesnāt work for my Steam Deck.
It does open. It does play. But controllers dont map correctly or thereās weird layering UI issues, where the game is unresponsive because its waiting for a keyboard event somewhere else, and the player canāt actually get there using a controller because the devs assumed people would only use mouse+keyboard. Not even switching controller setups make it work.
Thatās my bad; I automatically read āSteam Deckā in the parent comment as āLinuxā which is obviously a much different story. Iāve definitely had my share of issues getting certain games to work properly on my Steam Deck that otherwise run flawlessly on my desktop.
Only 13% of my Steam library is verified. That's still plenty of games, but it's a lot more limited than "all games on Steam." More than half of the top 20 games on Twitch are unplayable or run terribly on Linux.
It opens some doors if you're willing to accept "playable" games. That's another 14% of my library. The vast majority are a crapshoot for me on the Deck. Most of the issues revolve around text illegibility and clunky controls.
I regularly play games that are not verified.
11000 games arenāt nearly close to the total games on steam. I have a large library of 1,000 games and some arenāt playable. The original Max Payne is listed as unsupported.
I am not knocking valveās progress here but I am saying that they arenāt nearly done yet.
Max Payne works with a platinium rating, see in winehq: appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicaā¦
Just because a game hasnāt been verified by Steam does not mean it doesnāt work.
Itās explicitly marked as unsupported. I wonder why though. Maybe Iāll check it out but Iād rather not gamble on each purchase. Something like oneshot doesnāt work on Linux. Their native build is broken and the proton version has some sort of mouse mapping bug last I checked. www.protondb.com/app/420530
So if itās not at least playable according to steam deck rating, I wonāt gamble.
Seems like this could really be a long term hit for Valve, and well deserved considering the effort theyāve put in to make it happen.
I generally avoid praising any company, but they deserve credit for what theyāve done for Linux gaming as a whole, and not trying to lock things down to the degree that other companies wouldāve.
Absolutely. I preordered partially because I wanted to support them for everything theyāve done for desktop Linux gaming (I almost never preorder anything), but it ended up being a better product than I expected so I donāt have even a little buyerās remorse.
Iāll probably preorder the Steam Deck 2 as well.
Valve has earned my business, and they get most of my gaming money. I started using Steam when they released their Linux client, and I really started buying a ton of games when they released Proton. Iāve been with them every step of the way, and theyāve earned every penny Iāve given them.
And still no SteamOS3 for Desktop. Oh, Gabe, you fat liarā¦
Wouldnāt that just be bare bones Linux with steam included? Not sure if steamos actually has tweaks over other Linux distro for gaming.
Would be cool for a āconsole boxā.
Thereās a few forks of SteamOS that do the job at least.
Just install Nobara, with Steam.
Including emulation, way more.
Father_RedbeardWatching this progress is what finally pushed me into choosing Linux as daily driver. The other factor is Microsoft is a bag of ass.
ManosTheHandsOfFateIām close. I was looking at SSDs the other day so that I can install Pop!_OS and dual boot. I used to be at least somewhat interested in the latest version of Windows but I have zero interest in 11.
Pop is my choice as well. Seems like a solid starting point without feeling too close to Windows.
The future is running Windows in a VM under Linux for the few Windows programs you need. No need to reboot into Windows except for very few exceptions.
Dizzy Devil DuckyThis was totally my plan for when I inevitably switch to Linux as a daily driver.
Itās a solid plan if you just wanna play older PC games and donāt want to go through the hassle of trying to get them to install using a program like WINE.
Yeah, and if you need to use Windows-only external hardware, just pass through a couple of USB ports. I thinks itās the ultimate solution.
I did it a few years ago. Havenāt looked back. Once you embrace and get used to using the workspaces and window tiling and you wonāt be able to go back to Windows clunky window management.
I had the same idea, though Iām a bit apprehensive about it. Iām not that technical, so itās kinda difficult for me. Do you have any resources you care to share?
I donāt have any. Iām technical enough that Iām confident I can figure it out. For me itās more about finding the time and energy. Thereās only one application that may give me trouble and thatās the cloud backup solution I use.
Thatās just Steam Deck. Iāve noticed for a few of my games, protondb having reports that they donāt work well on the deck but play fine on other Linux devices.
Well, steam deck is pretty limited in terms of GPU and even then tons of games that would work on it werenāt simply tested yet.
DharkStareThis is great news. Iām really hoping to switch to full Linux for my gaming PC because I really donāt want Windows 11.
addieDo it. I did it years ago, never looked back, and itās only gotten better since then - Proton has been off like an absolute rocket lately, and publishers considering the Steam Deck a āfirst classā target should mean an end to them bundling the broken anticheat that stops 100% compatibility.
Itās still not click and play, but most of the time it is. I wish companies stop shipping game launchers, Iāve been pulling hairs with 2K, tweaking here and there to be able to launch a game.
Lettuce eat lettuceGaming is so seamless on Linux now, even compared to just a year ago.
The amount of tweaks or fiddling I have to do now with games is basically zero.
Nearly every game I play literally just works. Not just on Proton either, but with regular Wine through Lutris, Windows games just play without issue.
Iāve never been happier with Linux than now.
I see this type of comment all the time on here. I tried switching over completely a week ago and had nothing but problems.
I went with Kubuntu after hearing success stories of gaming on Ubuntu and the great GUI of KDE. R5 5600X and 3080 Ti.
Framerate on Arma 3 was abysmal. Itās mostly CPU locked so NVIDIA drivers arenāt as critical. Max 30 FPS in a location Iād usually get 75+.
Lutris was unable to install the blizzard launcher. It was giving me an error about using a 64 bit version of WINE instead of 32 despite Lutris pulling the dependencies. I manually installed the supposed packages and had no option to manually select them in the installation process. Lutris automatically selected the wrong one and I gave up after that - about an hour of trying to install it.
Gaming on Linux is nowhere near ready for most people. Thereās just too much troubleshooting and frustration.
If you only tried two games, one of them was launcher problems on Blizzards end (fuck Blizzard), then you canāt really comment on much. ArmA is notoriously CPU entensive, and it may not work well with Linux. Is it marked on Steam as Linux compatible?
Iāve been playing Arma3 on Linux for about a year and a half now, works perfectly for me.
Frames are high and smooth, graphical settings all work well, no crashes.
Iām on Nobara Linux with a 6700xt and a 5800X3D. I just run it through Steam, I think with the default Proton version, possibly experimental.
I played about a dozen games and most of them worked great through steam.
Arma is gold rated on protondb.
What I donāt understand is why everyone talks about how easy Linux gaming is when itās clearly not as simple a process as Windows.
People said ānever buy 1st genā. But I thought the steam deck has been completely solid since launch with no major problems or flaws. (Unlike the ROG Ally with the microSD slot overheating).
Yup. I rarely preorder things, but I made an exception for the Steam Deck and havenāt been disappointed.
Iāve been very confident for awhile now that I can just buy games on a whim and not have to check if their compatible. I just assume they are. So far havenāt had any issues, and if I did, then Steam letās you do an easy auto refund so thereās no risk at all.
Even the online game I play that I had to keep Windows around for (Genshin Impact), they randomly made their anti cheat compatible with Wine so I have zero reason to use Windows now. I have no more games anymore that donāt work on Linux.
Thereās just a few super popular shooters with aggressive anti cheats that donāt really work. Its always the anti cheats that demand direct kernel access! Which people really underestimate how massive of a security flaw that is, even if you donāt care about Linux.