The recent news that SteamOS may soon be shipped with third-party devices could be particularly important for Linux gaming on desktops.

Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn’t precisely say they’re starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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    6 days ago

    I mean, it’s serviceable if all you do is gaming

    You answered your own question. For some devices, gaming is all they need to do.

    It feels as if Steam is doing everything in its power to keep me from leaving it and punishes me for daring to try

    Does it? EmuDeck, Heroic and Lutris integrate directly into Steam. With a single click you can add a shortcut in your Steam library. Same goes for adding any desktop shortcut with a right click.

    I’m not sure how they can make it any easier unless somebody like GOG bothers to do some work themselves.