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With the shenanigans Windows has would a Steam Deck based OS be the best for Gaming going forward?

Super Firm Tofu said:
It may have been me. I've mentioned Heroic a few times. It's a must-have on Linux for me, and a good replacement for the Epic Games Store on Windows too.
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To move this discussion to a relevant thread, does Heroic play nice with Proton? Or are you using Wine for that?

See post #8 for more context about my question.
 
Count von Schwalbe said:
To move this discussion to a relevant thread, does Heroic play nice with Proton? Or are you using Wine for that?

See post #8 for more context about my question.
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Heroic allows you to choose from any installed versions of Proton on your system for each game, as well as setting a default version for all.

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Heroic also allows you to download any version of Proton-GE or Wine-GE directly.

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lexluthermiester said:
Whether it is or not is not as important a question as "Can you". The answer is currently no. SteamOS is currently exclusive to the SteamDeck. Valve has no plans to port it to general PCs or other PC-like hardware.


I looked into that. It's not as seamless as it appears. I also tried Nobara and Bazzite(https://bazzite.gg/). Bazzite was the best one for being a solid portable "gaming" Linux distro. However none have really hit the mark any better than the mainstream Linux distros. Bazzite is currently the best one I've found, but YMMV. Requires a Radeon GPU of recent vintage(RDNA+) to work right, so fair warning.

Valve should really consider making a general SteamOS distro that slipstreams all of the good things about the deck version into a general desktop distro. It would be an involved but likely not difficult effort.
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I said this time next year. Handhelds are making a fierce market. I can see someone making an OS to game on those handhelds. Maybe even Windows themselves Bazzite seems like a good first attempt but could also be seen as the beginning of something. Handhelds are just a different form factor of PC so porting it to our Desktops could indeed be achievable.
 
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