Valve throwing some money/developer time at Waydroid would be awesome
As far as I understand that’s exactly what’s been happening behind the scenes.
Proton is throwing money at wine IIRC
Yes, that’s what I meant. I hope they do something similar for waydroid.
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.
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 porting 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.
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.
Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091370/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-end-of-support
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 (that no one uses) in the MS Store (that no one uses) and layers of docs for sideloading.
Have you heard the good news about Linux?
It is still surprisingly far from straightforward to get it working
EDIT: I mean Android on Linux is difficult. Not Linux itself.
Fair enough. I’m just fulfilling Lemmy’s contractual obligation to mention Linux any time someone doesn’t want to “upgrade” to Windows 11.
Every. Fucking. Thread.
“Hey instead of complaining about a few minor annoyances on Windows, why not just switch to Linux?”
Like I have many uses for Linux and appreciate it, but the amount of suggestions that I see telling someone that Linux is the fix is way too many
I fear becoming that guy, can you call me out if I do? Cheers.
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.
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
Wait, but Steam doesn’t have Android games, right?
Yet
Honestly Steam is WAY overdue for an Android store.
Although it seems like putting the cart before the horse if they’re developing Android support for Steam Deck before launching a game store.
While I welcome Android games on Steam, a part of me is repulsed by how Android game devs treat their customers; in-game ads, horrendous amount of mtx, p2w. Not saying that Steam games don’t suffer mtx but it’s way lesser.
Anyway, let’s see how it goes.
The main problem is the amount of REALLY bad games. It’s very hard to find decent games, most of them are intentionally unplayable garbage.
We need a dedicated Green Light with Dev guidelines for Android games. Or at least a separate store section for them. I really don’t want to get flooded by low-effort mobile games.
Which is what they’re rumored to be working on. Hence the post.
Yeah. Stream your android games from your phone to your steam deck so you can stream them to your phone!
Stream the stream from your stream to stream it to your stream.
You can sort of do that with Winlator, but it’s pretty early tech!
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I mean you could say the Steam Deck is “just 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.
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Fair, but a valve implementation could mean a good implementation in game mode. That would be nice and be easier for people not willing to touch desktop mode.
Why did the OP go and edit their comments into a bunch of lines?
To let me know I should block them
Maybe they have a stutter?
Childish
Because it wouldn’t let me delete them
Why does that matter? Own it.
Because I realized the other user wasn’t going to discuss logically, they were going to use false equivalence and after I replied I found it pointless to try and discuss with someone who would do that, so I tried to delete it, except I still was getting replies, so I edited it
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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
