Submitted 9 months ago by Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
SteamDeck, emulate everything.*
The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn’t have switched if not for Valve.
translation is kind of native though. It is almost like pırting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool
Yeah it’s pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.
Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn’t an emulator by any meaningful definition.
It’s a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they’d run on your phone.
That’s interesting. I didn’t know that. I tried working with Waydroid once on Bazzite on an older desktop of mine and didn’t get terribly far with it.
Guess they want to make it easy for mobile devs to launch their games on steam. Not sure if there’s a market for it though.
Don’t these guys have phones??? (Blizzard style)
Uhh… for their steam deck I’d think 😂
This was my first thought. I’ve wanted to be able to play mobile games on my steam deck since I got it.
Maybe a start for their own Android store? And later an iOS store perhaps? (Although that’s an entire different can of worms, regulations and apples)
No idea why it’s difficult to run android on PC in the first place. Windows 11 can do it, but I’m clinging to 10 until it’s gone.
Have you heard the good news about Linux?
It is still surprisingly far from straightforward to get it working
Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.
Still pisses me off, this was one of the reasons I updated and they half-assed the implemenation then said they’re killing it because no one is using it… no shit no one is using it, you hid it it behind the Amazon App and layers of docs for sideloading.
If this means I can play my Steam games on my phone… Yay! 🎉
More like the other way round.
You can stream steam games to your phone with steam link thought.
Finally
Steam phones on my game
Hmm something about this has me fantasizing about a phone sized deck. But considering Valves development of VR and this development, I think they are going to tap into the android based VR dev pool for porting titles to an official Android on Steam platform.
Valve rumoured to be working on your mother’s pussy
You saying my mom’s pussy is open source?
Not just OSS.
FOSS
Confirmed. They were two spots ahead of me in the line.
Well at least I know they won’t get her pregnant, because I already have a sibling
I mean you could say the Steam Deck is “Just running KDE on Arch”.
The difference is how they implement it and what it’s used for. This could be huge for “apps” on the Steam Deck, for example. Or it could be a quirky experiment or feature nobody uses. Time will tell.
I would like if someone managed Valve right and made HL3.
Valve makes infinitely more money off of store fees selling other people’s games. Why would they want to make a fraction developing a single game when they can go after Android’s 30% cut?
…So they have no issue burning a few million on HL3 knowing its a sunk cost to maybe keep some of the talent that has been leaving the company?
…why not both?
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Valve throwing some money/developer time at Waydroid would be awesome
offspec@lemmy.world 9 months ago
As far as I understand that’s exactly what’s been happening behind the scenes.
bitfucker@programming.dev 9 months ago
Proton is throwing money at wine IIRC
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Yes, that’s what I meant. I hope they do something similar for waydroid.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’d be great, since it’s basically broken as-is.