Seconding this, steamos (or whatever is on steam deck) is just arch Linux with steam installed. They may have some extra little goodies in there… But nothing major. When you install steam on Linux, you can change a single option in setting and steam will download proton for you. You can attempt to run any steam game and most will work fine. Battlebit remasted isn’t officially supported, but it’s worked since day 1 on my arch install and I’m just using that since it’s the most recent hugely popular game.
Yeah, multiplayer games with kernel-level anti-cheat are gonna be real hard to support on Linux. I don’t know that we’ll ever have a good solution to that.
Between normie and conservative, I’m waiting for SteamOS to become publicly available to even attempt switching to Linux.
I’m curious: what feature(s) of SteamOS are keeping you from trying/switching to Linux?
If it’s Proton, you get that for free with any Steam install on Linux. I’ve been using it for the last couple years. (And it’s awesome)
Seconding this, steamos (or whatever is on steam deck) is just arch Linux with steam installed. They may have some extra little goodies in there… But nothing major. When you install steam on Linux, you can change a single option in setting and steam will download proton for you. You can attempt to run any steam game and most will work fine. Battlebit remasted isn’t officially supported, but it’s worked since day 1 on my arch install and I’m just using that since it’s the most recent hugely popular game.
As for me - can’t play Fortnite on Proton/SteamOS
Yeah, multiplayer games with kernel-level anti-cheat are gonna be real hard to support on Linux. I don’t know that we’ll ever have a good solution to that.
If true, that would be awesome if a new SteamOS became a Linux on-ramp (Debian base didn’t quite pan out).
Try out EndeavourOS. It’s based on Arch (Like SteamOS) and I have had no trouble with gaming so far.