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Question about Steam Deck vs Gaming PC (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did you turn on steamplay/proton on in the settings? Including the toggle to use it for all titels?

Of course does not mean all games are playable, but they at least should so up in your library to try.

You can test a windows game and especially single player games most just work. If you have some problems you can check it on protondb.com. Maybe someone already found a simple solution.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I've got it all set up now, thanks for the instructions. Super exited to try this out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I really don't know why they don't enable this by default on a Linux installation.