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Not enough games for linux ๐คฃ
It's getting better; Proton has really advanced this.
What's hurt this movement, is the lack of support of AntiCheat games, whether that being due to kernel level anticheat or games not supporting server side anticheat.
Quite frankly, the potential of server-side anti-cheats is nearly entirely untapped. In Minecraft (Java Edition), some anti-cheats have made cheating much less overpowered, going as far as to patch 99% of movement cheats, and many combat cheats are ML-based, at this point.
Not only that, theres also an increasing number of anticheat's that supports linux, however they have it intentionally disabled so when you run the game it either blocks you or in worse case bans your account as a whole
I'm waiting for when the current official SteamOS is available to be installed on any PC to give it a whirl again. I know there is Bazzite, but I'd like to see exactly what a Deck user experiences, but on my desktop. They said it's coming, but with the recent announcement I'm wondering if they just meant this new Steam Machine and not like the old SteamOS which was kinda dookie but can be installed on any machine.
Don't they see Steam's Big Picture mode? I think you could just run that and Gamescope on whatever distro you like. No need to wait for SteamOS 3.