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I second that, everything "just works" as you'd expect it to.

If StreamOS can get widespread and they start to introduce desktop apps to the store, I think they can take some market share.

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> everything "just works"

Just a note to readers who are interested in this: some games in your Steam library may still not work with Proton, but the ones that do work should have rather few issues. (I play exclusively on a Steam Deck so “should” is in reference to the variance in hardware among bespoke machines.)

Imo just works is an understatement. Many games work better than ever.

On low power hardware many games run better because they not strangled by windows bloat.

How bloated is Windows actually?

Idles at 50% CPU usage running background tasks on a dual core. For steam deck, enough to be noticeable in FPS.

Is that 50% CPU usage across all cores? That's impressive (as in impressively bad).

I haven't used Windows in a few years, but I was actually fairly happy with Windows 10 as a casual user.

One core, broadwell generation.

Devs don't test on low spec machines and MS fired the team that maintained the testing PC zoo a decade ago.

I have a 9950X3D and doing nothing Windows still lights up a core 5-20% every few seconds doing god knows what.

Linux on the same hardware does not.

I still have a Windows computer for a single reason: PUBG on Steam.

If that worked on Linux, I would not longer need Windows at all...

PUBG - the game that must have tried every different AC at some point. Plus layering multiple at the same time.

I am glad they've added bots years ago which made me stop playing so I do not miss it.

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