Nilay431 t1_j7s5s3f wrote
Are the none steam games easily playable or do you have to “hack” it? I feel like with Xbox games pass, battle net, epic, gog etc having access to just one PC store is pretty limiting even if it is the biggest store.
c010rb1indusa t1_j7skkyw wrote
I think you'll see going forward that Steam Deck support will be a day 1 priority for most, if not all new PC releases. Even it's just to avoid the bad PR.
Chazay t1_j7vb6pl wrote
The green checkmark is the first thing I look at when buying a game now. If it's not verified, then I skip it. I don't see why any good developer would skip the Steam deck when publishing a game in the future, especially if they have a PC and Switch version.
TooLazyToRepost t1_j7x9z3t wrote
Would there be mainstream bad PR? Not saying it wouldn't be bad, just having a hard time seeing headlines about not supporting the #4 consoles. There's exclusives all the time.
LeMageTank t1_j7s8l1i wrote
It's really simple, you can install any third party storefronts, download your games, then import them into your steam library. You can also install windows for any unsupported games on proton, which is only a slight pain in the ass.
poboy975 t1_j7sbm5p wrote
I've been running Linux full time for quite a few years now, and i have a 512gb Steam Deck. In my experience, 80% of my library just works without tweaking due to proton. Maybe 15% requires minor tweaking, easily found instructions for online, the last 5% either requires major tweaking or just flat out doesn't run. Most of those don't run very well on windows either due to bad optimisations.
Linux isn't difficult, it just takes some patience to learn. Most things now don't need command line interface to do, but it doesn't hurt to learn the basics.
crossandbones t1_j7tpykx wrote
Pretty much any game or storefront can be downloaded. The biggest restriction I’ve seen is anti-cheat for specific games. You could always install Windows on a Steam Deck if a particular game is a must have (haven’t done it myself so your mileage may vary).
TONKAHANAH t1_j7t2c8d wrote
there are ways to play them. technically even as it is the steam (non-linux native) games are "hacked" to work so its kinda all with in perspective but you dont ever have to "hack" anything like you would have to hack/jail break a nintendo console to run emulators on it.
for example, there is a third party launcher for downloading/launching games from the epic store and gog in a similar way that steam launches its windows titles (think it even just uses a version of proton for it). it should be available in the desktop mode app store so you dont even need to go out on a web browser to set any of it up. in some ways getting a lot of the games going is more "built in" than even windows.
some things simply wont really work, game pass for example will probably never work outside of streaming.
Lovat69 t1_j7te3q2 wrote
The first thing I did after turning on my deck the first time was look up and follow online instructions to get the epic launcher to work on the steam deck. I couldn't tell you now what I did, but I didn't have any great difficulty following the instructions. The epic launcher opens. I can play the games I have through Epic just fine. The only problem I have is instead of closing the epic launcher normally I have to force close it. I have yet to set up Xbox PC game pass. I don't know if a work around for that has been found yet.
ci_newman t1_j7tj5hh wrote
Gamepass works fine, although you need to have the premium subscription so you can use their streaming service.
IFailedTuringTestAMA t1_j7utglo wrote
You don’t need to “hack” it because it’s open source and encouraged. It’s a computer.
I stream Gamepass cloud games and the option to do so is set up in my Steam as a non Steam game. It was trivial to do all this and I don’t know much about computers tbh.
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