Quoting: officerniceIsn't there a way to navigate to that page within Steam itself? I cannot seem to find it under the dedicated Steam Deck page (Categories >> Steam Deck)

Store -> News -> find the post about it.
Clicking the link will show you the results in the client.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääThis looks like a game that could easily be ported nowadays to Linux native..

Ethan Lee would be able to help them with that, maybe even for free.

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Quoting: TheRiddickGiven that feral games get removed off steam once license expires... I wouldn't be buying from them anyway.

They're not removed. You can still download them, you just can't buy them anymore. So it makes full sense to buy them before. I got some games that got "removed", and... why should I care?!?

You can still buy them. Everything's still there, except for the little box that says Linux is supported. And Feral's payment for a "Linux sale" - it's still a Linux sale on the stats, it's just that Feral no longer get paid for it.

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Quoting: ShmerlSounds like a dumb response of some clueless PR person. They'll revise their answer soon, becasue it was a pretty bad PR :)

No, they won't.

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Quoting: Guestyeah I understand, like any other device, installing a different OS doesn't void your warranty (didn't know that tho) but I'm still curious at what will be the official response from Valve? for example is there an official web page from valve to download drivers for the Steam Deck? or will they provide a bios update utility that runs on Windows? it's still a mystery of what the "official" approach will be, if they are too "friendly" with Windows then they might shot their own foot.

During the first non-IGN hands-on session they said that they'd tested Windows on it, and didn't need to install anything special. That's what they'll be aiming for for customers, too - if there's a driver for something that's needed they'll just bung it at Microsoft to include with their install images or other Windows driver mechanism. I don't expect them to have anything Windows-related on the Steam Deck site.

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I haven't checked the numbers, but it seems likely that Steam sells more DRM-free Linux games than GOG.

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Quoting: GuestOne thing that came to my mind. If steam OS is the official supported OS, that comes preinstalled, does this means that running Windows, voids your warranty or you just cannot ask for support?, like you are in your own if you do that?

It's not going to void your warranty - if it breaks, you'll still be able to send it in to them for it to be fixed or whatever - and they're going to make sure that they aren't blocking having Windows on the thing, by making sure that drivers are available and everything, because that's an important part of building customer confidence in it. But if you muck up your Windows install in some way, or there's some other software problem, or it just doesn't run very well with Windows on it, the official answer will be to put SteamOS back on it, since that's how it shipped. The vast majority of Valve's customers are going to be running Windows for a heck of a long time, even if the Deck sells astonishingly well, so there will be plenty of Steam-on-Windows expertise floating about, just not necessarily much Windows-on-Deck expertise.

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Quoting: EikeDo we already no if "recommended_runtime: proton-stable" would result in ordinary Linux PCs using Proton by default as well?

We don't know for sure that they won't do that in the future, but there's no compelling reason to. That kind of decision for normal PCs would be down to the developer.

Quote*edit* Interestingly, the first game I looked up (Life is Strange 2) does not have a "recommened_runtime" set...
https://steamdb.info/app/532210/info/

The earliest tests didn't have that information. Then there was a period where they were forgetting to test the native version (which they've now fixed & have put the affected games back into the testing queue).

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Yet another very interesting thing, also for Windows only gamers! "requires_internet_for_singleplayer"!

Not enough to stop a game getting Verified, but it does show up as a warning in the store.

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Also of interest is that HL2 gets the recommended_runtime: native attribute, unlike Portal 2 (currently).

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Quoting: TheBardMost games runs better on proton than natively.

[citation needed]

Note that there are 9,612 native games on Steam today, so you need to show that at least 4,807 of them work better through Proton on all hardware.

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