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Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck(steamdeckhq.com)

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To be clear, while the article says this is “official support”, this is only drivers provided by valve.

Per valve:

We are providing these resources as is and are unfortunately unable to offer ‘Windows on Deck’ support.

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Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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Blech! Why would somebody sully such a wonderful device with a piss patty OS?

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Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social
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I could imagine that games with invasive anti cheats are a reason.

As someone who played a couple, i just stopped playing them.

I’m a little sad they did this, i hoped that the pressure on the game devs would rise so they support Linux, oh well.

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andreluis034@bookwormstory.social
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Personally, I think this is great because I can now use my game pass subscription on the steam deck, I know I could use the cloud functionality on steamos, but it is not the same.

This limitation made be realize the vendor lock-in that game pass is, sure it provides awesome value, but forces you to have windows or buy an Xbox.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Why did you subscribe to services you couldn’t use?

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andreluis034@bookwormstory.social
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I only bought a steam deck recently, when I subscribed for 3 years, I mostly gamed on Windows or on my Xbox.

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Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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True, still a little salty I had to cancel the subscription, I genuinely liked it. But I’m not installing Windows.

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ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Getting Game Pass on steamos is pretty easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U22q9mKfW3Y

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Did you actually watch the video and/or read what I said? I want to be able to play the games locally, not from the cloud.

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