• lustyargonian@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    SteamDeck, emulate everything.*

    • Proton technically isn’t emulation, but it’s pretty crazy that the device basically doesn’t have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft’s PC gaming monopoly.
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      4 months ago

      The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn’t have switched if not for Valve.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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      4 months ago

      translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool

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          Sadly that’s mostly true, but that may have more to do with devs lack of experience with Linux in general. Often they would have to outsource the port to Aspyr or another team.