> The important part here is of course not just the Steam Deck support, but the fact that the Steam Deck is just a handheld Linux computer; if it works there, it will work on any Linux machine.
Kind of but not that simple.. The 'secret sauce' if you can call it that is the "Steam Proton" compatibility layer for Windows graphics APIs using a combination of Wine and DXVK.
So 'any linux distro' is a bit of a stretch, in fact I'm not sure the public availability of the Proton as it was a partnership with Valve and CodeWeavers.
Edit: `DXVK` is DirectX over Vulkan which is fast becoming more performant and ubiquitous.
Kind of but not that simple.. The 'secret sauce' if you can call it that is the "Steam Proton" compatibility layer for Windows graphics APIs using a combination of Wine and DXVK.
So 'any linux distro' is a bit of a stretch, in fact I'm not sure the public availability of the Proton as it was a partnership with Valve and CodeWeavers.
Edit: `DXVK` is DirectX over Vulkan which is fast becoming more performant and ubiquitous.
Edit2 : Proton's repo - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton