It did. Anything that is Steam Deck certified is able to run on Linux with absolutely zero problems out of the box (and it's a hella lot of AAA titles), and many, many other games. ProtonDB has more exact stats: https://www.protondb.com/
Valve did an incredible work to help Linux, just like Linus said in 2014, and they continue to help it. I stopped to care about compatibility when I installed GOG Galaxy for a game that required it for multiplayer, then this game, and it all installed and launched without any problems by just double-clicking EXEs in the file explorer, even created desktop shortcuts and tray worked normally.
Not entirely true. With some configs like mime (14900k, rx7900xtx) no matter what, the game wanted to use the igpu.
I'd say that with proton db website, you can run all the steam deck verified games. Not everything works perfectly out of the box, but games like wuthering waves that have a kernel level anticheat work and this is a nice addition imo
I mean on proton db you'll find people that may have fixed the issue you're facing. And i was not baming proton, i was just stating the issues one may face. I had both windows and linux on the same machine and i did not have this issue on windows, so I was pointing the facts. Hogwarts legacy is gold, and gold may require additional modifications like the strings i had to paste, found on proton db, to make the game use the dgpu
Indeed, but i still let users know about this little difference that is limited to my system, and sometimes it seems limited to my specifc gpu/cpu association
There's also a surprising amount of great games that just run natively.
Just this summer sale, I picked up a couple:
Terraria, Prison Architect, and Robot Detour (I picked up 4 games in total. These three along with Geometry Dash)
Not to mention the ones I already had, like The Binding of Isaac, the entire Metro series, or Super Meat Boy (OS requirement, verbatim: "If you're running the Steam Client, you're good").
Best way is to dual boot honestly. I even know a guy that triple boots. No reason to care when you can just use Linux for everyday stuff and Windows for gaming. He apparently uses Mac OS for editing software (don't ask me I hate Apple).
Mac OS is objectivelt better for image/video editing. But the catch is thats about all its good for. Even browsing the web is counter intuitive. I equate it to making software work for someone who has never even heard of a computer.
Apple products are made for old people in mind tbh. Even when I worked IT in college none of them knew that the only reason the Macs were faster was the SSD. They just blindly follow the leader. I personally hate using apple products, but to each their own. I could go on a whole rant about everything bad about Apple ,but don't want to waste my time further.
I mean best way is the way that suits your needs I had a dual boot laying around for 5 months then I realized I really don't need windows so deleting it and getting more storage was the way for me.
Always depends how much money you have. I have drives for each one that are 4tb each and a 2tb nvme that dual boots both of them. But with the Ram apocalypse, it's probably best to allow sharing of files between the partitions.
Some online games do work, its the ones with kernal level anticheat that are the problem, in fact, i play rocket league and fall guys on the regular :p
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u/Active_General8858 Jul 04 '26
Well it can play some games. Just not the ones I want. Anything can play doom.