• Buck Fucket@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honest Question with a long windup: I’m not looking forward to the forced Win11 update, tried Win11 and would rather keep 10…

    If I made the swap to Linux, what happens to my Steam Library? Don’t many of those games need Windows to run? I have a SteamDeck and understand Valve has created their own thing to fool games into thinking their played on Windows, but that’s just SteamOS for a handheld. Sorry, I know I can look up this information online, I would like to hear it from someone personally rather than some blog or website article.

    • Wit@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Idk about Linux, but on Mac I can run most Windows games through Wine no problem. IIRC Linux has Proton, which is a better version of Wine that’s built into Steam so you can launch Windows games directly from your native Linux Steam client. Unless you play a lot of AAA games I’d suggest giving it a go.