I have a Steam Deck, and I love it. It can handle 90% of my library, and it’s always improving.
I decided to try out a linux distro for my OS, because the biggest drawback has always been the hoops that I had to jump through to get games up and running. I went for Pop OS, since that seemed to be natively friendly with NVidia, and the lowest barrier for entry. However, in Steam, I see that there is a much more limited selection of games compatible with my system. Is there a way around that, to get the same selection as my Steam Deck? Or is it this way because the Steam Deck is a singular platform that is developed for based on specific architecture?
I believe Steam is just showing you games that can run natively on Linux. You have to run Windows games through wine/proton like the Deck does.
I don’t actually have an anything except the Deck running Linux so I can’t help beyond that. I may even be wrong but it’s at least a place to start searching.
You‘re currect but proton is just a click away in steam. If you enable proton „for all titles“ instead of compatible ones you can run nearly anything.
Done and done. Thanks!
Make sure to check protondb if you run into any issues. A lot of games have the tiniest problem that you can clear up with a simple startup flag.
Good luck! :)
Also PCGW since some games are bugged on all platforms.
Whats pcgw?
I always love seeing someone reach the eureka moment where they realize windows is no longer necessary. There are a few games I had to give up completely, but honestly it’s worth the sacrifice. I’m going on over a year with no windows in my home.
All games in my 300 game library show up with that option enabled. So far everything just ran with minimal tinkering (selecting a specific proton version in game settings)
Thats just insane! Thanks for mentioning it.
You nailed it. Thanks!
You’re close, games Valve has vetted will also allow running by default, so you only need to change a setting to get games Valve hasn’t vetted to run.