Good to see this kind of thing possible, but hopefully there will be an easier way to do this kind of thing in the future. For us Linux enthusiasts, this is absolutely nothing. But the less techn savvy, especially those coming from console land will need something dead simple.

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Quoting: vipor29kinda of suprised to see doom 2016 and doom eternal are not listed seeing they run great,maybe the next update. those would be great games to take on the go.

It is quite obvious that the list is growing in sort of random manner. Devil May Cry 5 just got added in this batch, but it was already one of the games that was allowed be shown for preview. There is clearly lot more games that will get rated as verified or playable. They either are slowly processing it to dump it in big batches prior release or it just takes more time than expected and it will slowly trickle as time goes. I was kinda hoping that by the end of this week the list will be at ~1000 at least and something like 5000 on release date would be something that would look quite good.

The games appear random because it's a selection of games that the initial wave of steam deck users actually have and play I do believe. They apparently have many, many more titles that have been tested and are ready to go. I hope it's a big number like you say and I hope developers have put a little bit of effort in to make their games work.

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I think it's right to temper expectations, but I do believe Valve have an internal build of Proton with DRM & Anticheat support for more titles that they haven't released yet. Once those big stumbling blocks are out of the way, we will jump almost immediately to over 90% of games supported. The focus can be then on knocking out the weird edge cases. Also expect developers/publishers to give the steam deck some love and update some of their games to work well with Proton which could really help us get closer to that "100%".

I think way too many people on here are being doom and gloom after seeing the failure of the steam machines. We are light years away from those days and I actually expect some rapid progress in compatibility and performance over the next 12 months. It's an exciting time to be a Linux gamer.

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Has any of this Futex stuff ever made it upstream? It seems like every year there is some attempt, but it never makes its way into the Kernel.

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Quoting: kokoko3kI have to point out that it is "powered by Arch Linux" in the sense that is only "Based" on it.
It is *not* running Arch, so any issue an user would have with the new Steamos will have no support at all by Arch Linux community,

It's running Arch as much as Manjaro is running Arch. The Arch wiki will be still extremely relevant. I don't expect Valve will deviate too far away from it's roots. Maybe it will have specific tested drivers and some bleeding edge kernel patches that benefit the Deck and haven't made into the mainline Kernel yet.

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You make a valid point about extensions constantly being broken on Gnome because of updates. It's the one thing I really hate about updating. I usually have a week or two either without some extensions, or I have to go find the github page to find a fix for the issue. It's part of the reason I don't update my Arch system as much as I used to.

I have briefly tried KDE in the past, but of all the main GUI's on Linux.. It's probably the one environment I've spent the least time in. I hope it's a really polished user experience by the time the Deck is released.

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I still think if Steam Deck is successful we will see more native Linux games targeted towards the hardware. Proton is fantastic for what it does, but it's far from perfect.. It's really ideal for older titles that have stopped receiving updates long ago.

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It's pretty cool to see he's had a help in whats going to be a huge shift in the gaming market. He wasn't the only one working on DX9 > Vulkan. He just put more time and effort in than the other projects and got there faster and we are happy that he did.

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I'm not usually that interested in hand held consoles, but it's a Linux machine and I want to pay back Valve for the hard work they've put into improving our ecosystem. It might be something I can play on my lunch break at work. Or at the very least its a cool portable PC that you can dock.

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Looking forward to the review benchmarks. Good times. The pricing seems fine considering they are now market leader.

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