Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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I can imagine this just leading to Denuvo blocking linux platforms (if possible).
Could, but that might be a hard sell to publishers with the popularity of deck, machine, steam OS, and just Linux rising popularity lately in general. Still a minority of the gaming market for sure but growing.
Then I'll jump to piracy again, it is a net loss for companies and I save money.
Tbh, if you are already able to bypass their whole protection, this is just a few more syscalls to hook into - proton already does that work anyways because windows syscalls don't mean anything to linux boxes.
Also, doing so would mean that piracy is the only way to play those games on linux, leading to mass proliferation of bypass techniques.