• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    513·
    2 months ago

    Other portable console makers: proprietary shit, locked down OSes, DRM embedded in the device at boot, custom/strange architectural choices, walled gardens

    Valve: eh, put a fuckin’ normal ass gaming PC in a tiny box with joysticks and call it a day.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
        241·
        2 months ago

        No, it’s great. It means you can make it do anything. You misconstrue my meaning.

        You don’t even have it game on it if you don’t want to. Use it as a server 😂

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
            191·
            2 months ago

            They’re focused entirely on the shitty practices those other manufacturers engaged in. In that regard, Valve didn’t do much (and that’s a good thing).

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
        7·
        2 months ago

        Yeah but with Steam Deck you’re not forced to use it. It’s an unlocked x86-64 compatible handheld PC. Install whatever you want.

      • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 months ago

        It is. And the only reason they are investing in the Linux space is the windows store, which was a threat to the existence of the steam store. So they started doing their own: they dabbled with Linux and eventually started proton. And thanks to vulkan, wine and many other projects they created something very cool.

        They aren’t our friends, but they are currently going in a favorable direction. Let’s just hope they don’t normalize something shitty like DRM again.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    143·
    2 months ago

    Steam is a proprietary app store shipping DRM and proprietary software. I can’t say I’m eager to use it

    • Username@feddit.org
      16·
      2 months ago

      If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.

      They don’t force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don’t lock down their hardware.

      What I’m trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it’s much better than any big tech alternative.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      devs can ship games on steam without drm, it’s not valve that mandates it. ksp doesn’t have drm for example

    • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yes. But that’s still better than most other big gaming companies.

      We should take from Valve what we can before they start invading the OS. Also, it’s DRM, so we either start to get our own game storage/acquiring mechanism or we just accept we can lose access to our games at any time of Valve’s choosing.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      The list of closed source games that also make the effort to make a Linux install is slim. I’m happy to have valve putting in the effort to make me enticed to use their store to legally buy games that are not open source and even to a degree support it under Linux.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Honestly it is better to just run them in a compatibility layer. If they work fine in proton I don’t see the need for proton

    • Eyck_of_denesle
      9·
      2 months ago

      Youtube journalism is such a joke. Sunnyv2 started this shit and now it’s a whole genre if “homemade documentaries”.