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Just thought I'd share something I thought was pretty interesting. I have a mother in law who is... well let's just say she's a stereotypical older mom who doesn't own a computer, just an iPad. During the pandemic, she started getting into Nintendo games and bought herself a Switch. Fast forward a few years later and she's interested in getting a Steam Deck, since one of her "mom groups" told her about some pandemic inspired games, similar to Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing that are only available on Steam.

When it comes down to it, she doesn't care about her computer, she just wants to play computer games in a way that's easy and accessible for her. We'll be getting her a Steam Deck for her birthday, which in my opinion is just super neat. Even PC gaming is becoming extremely accessible, and it's a fantastic time to be a gamer.

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[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

Even so it made it significantly harder for people to make the dated throwaway comment that you'll lose access to a majority of your games by switching to Linux.

With that I feel like people will see it's just as usable as MacOS and Windows in a majority of circumstances.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I lost all my games when I swapped to Linux.

But that’s because it was a decade ago, and I was way too lazy to figure out why wine wouldn’t work, tho I don’t really pc game anyway and these were mostly older games, even then. Small loss.

I know there’s a lot of stuff either native dev or ported/cracked for Linux, just never really spent the time to look into it.

The only thing that’s going to cause problems for me now is idk how Linux handles vr. I assume not terribly well, since none (almost none?) of it is native dev. I’m looking to move away from consoles now that they are moving away from physical media (no point collecting if there’s nothing to collect), so Linux being more robust is great! But vr maybe my stick point. Depends how well developed it gets I guess.

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago

VR headsets and games with anti-cheat software still have issues. I haven't been able to get Oculus Rift S to work for example.

I think some headsets like the ones made by Valve and HTC work better though. I'm not sure if there's currently the same degree of rapid advancements for VR Linux gaming as there are for gaming in general on Linux. I know OpenHMD exists but I haven't tried it out myself.

[-] shadowbert@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My Vive Pro does work - but not as nicely as it did on windows. Driver support for stuff like reprojection doesn't seem to be there.

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