Crazy milestone! It has made Linux gaming actually possible!
I’m actually astounded by how rock-solid my games are on Steam Deck. My prior experience with Linux gaming, even as recently as 18 months ago with Proton, was that even if games ran you’d see artifacting and weird logic issues or crashing.
Haven’t seen a single instance of that on my Deck; it is indistinguishable from gaming on a Windows PC. Absolutely love it.
I think it kind of also depends on the type of games you play. I’ve been using Proton since its release, and outside of live-service type games, like games that receive updates that break Proton compatibility, Proton has been pretty solid for me. Though I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS exclusively since 2017, it may vary from distro to distro I suppose (although the idea of Proton is that distro is irrelevant).
Love valve’s support for Linux gaming. Even my pc only has Linux mint on it now soo glad to get rid of windows (in my personal life only unfortunately)
whenever I see a title like this, I always feel like I have to specify that 10,000 are NOT the total number of titles you can play on the Deck, but only those that Steam had the time to test and verify. Actually 70%-80% of the whole Steam library is playable, it’s just that Steam didn’t get there yet. sometimes even titles that Steam marked as unplayable are actually very playable, so don’t trust the system in negative, just trust it in positive (i.e. if it’s marked as verified, you can be sure it will work)
