What are you even talking about? I have all of those installed as well, and a few others on top. I’m incredibly wary of any of them though - I don’t know if GoG will be around in 10 years, I don’t trust epic as far as I can throw them, I don’t want to support ubisoft and EA, and Blizzard has made so many questionable choices that I’m at the point where I don’t want to support them AND I don’t believe they can make good games anymore.
It’s about trust. I trust valve to allow me access to my games more than I trust the others. Doesn’t mean I don’t have the others, where did I say that?
Jajcus@kbin.social 4 months ago
Valve is the company responsible for unlocking my PC for gaming. Most games can now be played without using Windows and Valve is mostly responsible for that. Because most game developers do not care and would rather force you to use proprietary OS than let you use what you prefer.
Wodge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’re still playing proprietary games on your FOSS OS. Furthermore, the vast majority of people don’t care.
If it matters to you personally, I get that. But linux gaming is personally DOA for me as it still doesn’t support my simracing hardware.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s only a recent thing and because it benefits them and their handheld device. They introduced online DRM and you are sucking it up.
fushuan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I have not looked it up but I do recall proton being a thing way before the steam console was.
Okay I looked it up before posting. The deck was released in 2022 and the initial release of proton was on 2018. Steam has had native clients for Linux and native Linux support for dota for ages too.
It’s true that their recent big push is because of the handheld but it’s also true that they have been pushing for gaming on Linux since way before.
msage@programming.dev 4 months ago
Steam console (not deck specifically) predates any proton release (2015).
Valve has been trying to break from Microsoft for a very long time.
The Deck is the first successful one, but far from the first.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In anticipation of their own OS and ecosystem. They are not the saviours of gaming as being professed by so many, they charge 30% to sell there and lock your games under DRM. It’s great Linux has become a bit more of a thing but still far from mainstream outside of custom builds like SteamOS.