That’s a bad analogy because 99% of the games that people play on steam machines will be Windows games, not Linux games. It’s an issue when you don’t know if a steam game will work on a steam machines, or any other PC game won’t work on your pc.
I mean, it’s pretty easy to know. They have an icon directly next to the game that says what it works on.
You have just as much knowledge about if it’ll work as you do based on hardware requirements. Which is to say “none, unless you look at the place where they tell you”.
Not sure where you’re getting that. It’s in excess of 25% that work specifically on the steamdeck, which is the easiest metric to see.
In any case, if the person is saying it’s an issue because you don’t know when buying a game, then it seems pretty relevant that you can know by simply “looking where you buy the game”. If you Google it, you can find out with an even greater chance of discovering the answer is “yes”.
The same people will generally accept that a ps4 game won’t play on an xbox etc. So it is a bit odd.
That’s a bad analogy because 99% of the games that people play on steam machines will be Windows games, not Linux games. It’s an issue when you don’t know if a steam game will work on a steam machines, or any other PC game won’t work on your pc.
I mean, it’s pretty easy to know. They have an icon directly next to the game that says what it works on.
You have just as much knowledge about if it’ll work as you do based on hardware requirements. Which is to say “none, unless you look at the place where they tell you”.
By this metric, 99% of games don’t work on Linux. How is this helping?
Not sure where you’re getting that. It’s in excess of 25% that work specifically on the steamdeck, which is the easiest metric to see.
In any case, if the person is saying it’s an issue because you don’t know when buying a game, then it seems pretty relevant that you can know by simply “looking where you buy the game”. If you Google it, you can find out with an even greater chance of discovering the answer is “yes”.
This is a genuine concern. Kernel level applications being required is not.
It is when the reason they don’t work on Linux is because it doesn’t support kernel level anti-cheat.