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The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’ (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] vala@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

they don’t want to deal with Linux or the Bash shell

I'm a professional software developer that runs Linux on all on my devices. So I could "deal with the bash shell" if I needed to for sure. But im not interested in doing anything but running games I bought on steam.

Not once have I even opened desktop mode on my steam deck for anything other than checking it out.

It's completely possible to stay 100% in the main SteamOS environment which is basically "Big picture mode".

Normal users literally would have no idea they are using Linux. It operates exactly how you would expect a handheld game console to operate.