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Re:Steam Deck OLED by Hamuko on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:52PM (#38211105)
And it's absolutely working! So far I've spent 566€ directly on Steam this year and my willingness to spend money on GOG or EGS has dropped dramatically considering what a seamless experience I get with Steam and the Steam Deck.
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Re:Steam Deck OLED by aquova on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:35PM (#38212358)
Me as well. I've on Linux for years, but there was a time where I was preferring GoG for their DRM-free policy. However, Valve went all in on Linux support while GoG refused to even make a Linux version of their launcher. I still occasionally buy things from them, but Steam gained my business.
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Re:Steam Deck OLED by saidinesh5 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:58PM (#38212591)
Yeah, the cdprojekt/Linux story is a weird one. They even released witcher 2 on Linux. But after all the hate they got , for it being a bad port, using some translation layer, it seems like they dropped the Linux use cases.

At least they don't go out of their way to block heroic games launcher/Linux and I'm happy with that.

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Re:Steam Deck OLED by bombcar on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:31PM (#38213360)
It’s much easier and safer for a company to officially not support Linux, but keep an eye on issues and not block it, than to officially release a port.
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