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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm amazed there are people out there putting windows on a Steam Deck. It's like buying a Monet and then bringing it home and doodling on it in finger paint

[–] XyliaSky@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If doing certain things under proton was less of a pain in the ass, I’d agree with you. But proton still isn’t simple for some usecases.

EDIT: the people downvoting me very likely have only surface level experience with Proton. Sorry, it isn’t perfect. It’s based on WINE, which also isn’t perfect. It’s making a lot of progress and is damn close but it isn’t perfect.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The usecase being discussed is Steam Deck though. And it works perfectly on there.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess they are referring to playing some specific games or software which don't work well on Linux even with proton.

That's the great thing about the deck; You can use it for whatever you want.

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

I personally would rather not play those games than worsen the general experience by installing Windows. Other people feel differently and that's okay.