The Deck does have desktop mode. I use it almost exclusively on mine.

You can buy them used if you can find them. I bought 2 directly from Valve before they were discontinued then a 3rd on Ebay.

I read Tim Sweeney’s name for the first time in this thread and don’t care enough to look him up, so I can’t comment on him. I don’t play a lot of multiplayer either, so Proton has been pretty great for me.

Pretty much the only remaining hurdle to Linux gaming is kernel-level anti-cheat which may be going away in the near future.

Minuum supposedly measures wpm and has been my favorite mobile keyboard since release. Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in years.

Yeah, even the “difficult” distributions tend to just be a matter of following instructions to get a working installation. Gentoo was a massive PITA to maintain though. Chances are I was missing some knowledge that would’ve simplified things, but I spent way too much time on maintenance for the system to actually be useful. Arch has been much kinder.

The launcher wasn’t cracked. It’s a cross-platform open source launcher that works quite well under linux. The game itself was cracked, meaning they were trying to play without having purchased it.

A lot of the modern packs have quests. It could be considered finished when you complete all of those, which I haven’t. Now I’m playing DW20 which doesn’t have quests, so I can avoid all those judgemental looks I was giving myself.

I find it difficult to play vanilla Minecraft anymore. Every now and then my niece will ask if I’ll play with her, so I’ll boot up my switch. Other than that, modded is the way to go. I started shortly after Iskall85 started his single-player Vault Hunters series. Have yet to “finish” any pack, but they’re fun!

It’d probably be less work to install LFS at that point.

The old version, based on Debian and made with Steam Machines in mind, was abandoned. SteamOS 3, based on Arch and made with the Deck in mind, is still meant to have an official generic release at some point afaik.

Well to each their own, but the only thing closer than the trackpad to a mouse would be a mouse.

Aiming with a controller is just going to be terrible.

In general I’d agree, but on the deck why would you not use the trackpad as a mouse for anything first-person?