LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

Posted Jan 6, 2022 18:52 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022 by stephanlachnit
Parent article: LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

IMHO this depends on their compatibility story. Right now, it looks like this: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified

> The team is currently working on a way for you to be able to check the compatibility category of each of the games in your own library ahead of launch.
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> In addition, you’ll soon be able to see which games in the Steam catalog have already gone through Steam Deck review, and what compatibility category they fall in. More on this soon.

This suggests to me that either A) they are still in the process of compatibility testing or B) they have finished compatibility testing and the numbers don't look good (because if they did look good, Valve would be shouting it from the rooftops instead of giving us this vague "wait and see" answer). What really surprises me is the fact that people are preordering a device which might not even run half their games.

(Yes, it's a PC, yes you can install whatever OS you want, including Windows, but in practice I don't think a large portion of the target audience intends to do that.)

LWN's unreliable predictions for 2022

Posted Jan 18, 2022 17:20 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

> This suggests to me that either A) they are still in the process of compatibility testing or B) they have finished compatibility testing and the numbers don't look good (because if they did look good, Valve would be shouting it from the rooftops instead of giving us this vague "wait and see" answer).

Based on my personal experience with Proton, I expect it's more A than B. It's *really* good. I just buy games now without even bothering to check the supported platforms. There are still some misses, and if I were 100% Linux-only I might make the occasional refund, but they really are rare.