Comment by irthomasthomas
3 years ago
I'm not a gamer but I'm tempted to buy a Steam Deck just to show my support for the project. Although throwing some donations to the WINE or Proton devs might be better.
Wine is a 30 year old project, but Valve's initiative has pushed it over the final mile, and transformed it from 'pretty good' to 'almost perfect'. Not only are most windows games now easily playable on linux, but many perform even better than on windows. This is due to windows games being locked to the API which they first targeted and that does not get updated. Whereas the linux stack can easily incorporate new improvements, and bug fixes. And, good news for non-gamers, this applies to most windows software. If you haven't looked at wine in a long time you should check it out.
To try and push you towards the Steam Deck side of the coin, you can escape to the desktop and use it as a normal computer, using a fairly simple USB-C dock (not apple’s, though).
The deck is the great entry point to casual games you can pick and up start and stop to be honest