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Steam Deck

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To be clear, while the article says this is "official support", this is only drivers provided by valve.

Per valve:

We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer 'Windows on Deck' support.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, at least for me the solution is simple: don't buy those games.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the 1st page I found exactly one game that I'd maybe want to play, but not like I couldn't live without it. None on page 2 and one game again on page 3. Every single game I wanted to play on the Deck works (true, some of them needed some tinkering).

Remember, I said the solution is simple for me. Generally the games that don't work are not really my cup of tea, like online games and generally stuff that's more cash-grab than a game. There are few games that would make me consider getting Windows to play, but luckily all of those work well. I still wouldn't install Windows on the Deck, though, I'd probably stream it from some PC.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I dunno if that list was supposed to be convincing lol... Most of the games on there are total "games as a service" garbage.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude there’s like, maybe twenty real games in that pile. Most of which I wouldn’t want to play on my steam deck anyways, not that I’ve ever wanted to play a battlefield game, but I sure don’t want to try and aim with a controller.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Gyro-assisted aiming is actually quite effective.

Thst's not to say anything about those games though.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every single one of these games looks like trash. Like 4 out of 5 (on page 1 at least) of the games on the list are games I've only heard about from YouTube advertisements that I didn't use SponsorBlock on.

Not very convincing.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The Call of Duty franchise is one of the biggest games going. PUBG Battlegrounds is huge, so is Destiny 2.