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I have games I play on steam that steam says is a no go on the steam deck. I decided to try it anyways and all but one worked. (it was a MS game so I'm not terribly surprised)
With tweaking, I'm sure most games would be just fine running on the Steam Deck. It's just a matter of figuring out the right settings.
I find older Windows games have the most issues like Oblivion or Morrowind if you install the stock standard GOTY. However, there's an open version of Morrowind that can be run via Lutris its just a bitch to get Lutris to work. Persistence is key.
I get that, but honestly, with popos, I haven't had to do any tweaking to get things working. I gave up trying to get it to work in mint, and I think I had issues in nobara too.
Pop!_OS is built different than other distros, I only had to apply 1 tweak and was minor AF. Honestly, if they were up to date with Ubuntu, I'd still be using that banger distro. First they must build COSMIC, their Rust based DE.
I'm almost nervous about Cosmic because I like it now because it just works. I'm not a super pro linux user, how big of a deal is not being up to date with Ubuntu, and how far out of date is it?
Its only one LTS Version behind, but its still very usable. I have confidence that COSMIC is going to be just as easy to use as Pop!_OS is now. This gives them an opportunity to make even more changes that will improve the end user experience. The System76 team knows what they are doing and won't release a busted product.