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Has Steam Deck done good for the rest of the linux community? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by altair222@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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I was wondering if steam deck's existence made linux gaming better for you folks who do not have a deck yet game on a linux machine, as im afraid it did nothing for me at all. I'm trying to see if its failure to influence my side of linux gaming is purely anecdotal.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What exactly did you expect to happen? Obviously the Steam Deck brought some more users and incentivised Valve to further improve Proton, but otherwise the Steam Deck is just another type of Linux PC. Why would that effect you if you don't have one?

[–] picard@mas.to 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@poVoq @altair222 I think the incentivisation to improve Proton is a big part of it. To be honest, I never really had any issues playing anything in Linux in the year before the Deck, so in practice probably not noticed any difference.

But I feel it's hard to quantify isn't it? Like, would Diablo 4 beta have worked without issue had the ecosystem not already been built up to encourage people to tinker and get it working?

These kinds of intangible benefits are still positive factors I think...

[–] altair222@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is my POV, proton support and hence more support for games.

[–] Prologue7642@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I would say that the biggest benefit is that few developers actually put even the minimal amount of effort to support things like anti-cheat in few games. I am not sure we would have that without Steam Deck.