I used it yesterday, I had to jump through hoops just to launch a game. If it “just works now” I shouldn’t have to switch proton versions.

Ah, epic, the storefront that barely works on Linux. And steam, which on Linux ships with proton that may or may not work, why? Dunno 🤷‍♂️

I’d rather have something that works out of the box.

Less games? No, pretty much every popular third party game is on it.

It’s all relative.

For me, the price of a base steam machine is $1,509 CAD plus tax.

Even then, they’re constantly changing their wording (“delivers 4k60fps” to “up to 4k60fps”), and real world testing it doesn’t make sense for me to consider this.

The Switch 2 is more than half the price ($629 CAD without the bundle) and has subjectively better price to performance plus it can be docked: it’s basically a steam deck and steam machine in one console.

Microsoft also claims that the Series S can play games “up to 120fps”. We all know that’s the furthest from the truth.

My takeaway is to take what Valve say with a grain of salt and watch YouTube videos on performance before dropping money on it.