Valve throwing some money/developer time at Waydroid would be awesome
SteamDeck, emulate everything.*
- Proton technically isn’t emulation, but it’s pretty crazy that the device basically doesn’t have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft’s PC gaming monopoly.
Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn’t an emulator by any meaningful definition.
It’s a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they’d run on your phone.
translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool
Yeah it’s pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.
Guess they want to make it easy for mobile devs to launch their games on steam. Not sure if there’s a market for it though.
Uhh… for their steam deck I’d think 😂 not that it’d be a primarily mobile gaming device, but no reason not to put your mobile games on it if you like them
This was my first thought. I’ve wanted to be able to play mobile games on my steam deck since I got it.
No idea why it’s difficult to run android on PC in the first place. Windows 11 can do it, but I’m clinging to 10 until it’s gone.
Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091370/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-end-of-support
Still pisses me off, this was one of the reasons I updated and they half-assed the implemenation then said they’re killing it because no one is using it… no shit no one is using it, you hid it it behind the Amazon App (that no one uses) in the MS Store (that no one uses) and layers of docs for sideloading.
It is still surprisingly far from straightforward to get it working
EDIT: I mean Android on Linux is difficult. Not Linux itself.
Fair enough. I’m just fulfilling Lemmy’s contractual obligation to mention Linux any time someone doesn’t want to “upgrade” to Windows 11.
“Hey instead of complaining about a few minor annoyances on Windows, why not just switch to Linux?”
Like I have many uses for Linux and appreciate it, but the amount of suggestions that I see telling someone that Linux is the fix is way too many
The point here is that MS made a pretty killer feature that was easy to set up, and it failed because nobody used it.
Hmm something about this has me fantasizing about a phone sized deck. But considering Valves development of VR and this development, I think they are going to tap into the android based VR dev pool for porting titles to an official Android on Steam platform.
