Subway is way off my list. They cut the bread over the meat. You can watch the crumbs fly right in.

there was no easy way to do it on a reasonably sized machine.

Why? What is the issue?

That was indeed the case. I suppose the comment didn't contribute much.

Just tired of seeing perfectly solid comments being downvoted with no reason provided 🤷

Can we get a link?

Debian has all the updated packages one needs for gaming just as well as the other distros.

Yes and no, but I agree with the overall sentiment. Debian is entirely fine for gaming.

My two suggestions are forcing a different proton version (you mention this, so im guessing you already have) and ensuring you have a 32bit opengl driver installed(package names will differ between distributions. Arch wiki has some info)

For troubleshooting, launch steam from a terminal and watch for errors on game launch/close

I didn't want to click the article. Then I realized the ironic hypocrisy and deleted my comment, lol.

Guess it federated before I got to it.

I personally combine lower end NAS boxes with 4x4 mini PC's. I like the separation of concerns, as well as the tiny footprint.

1% lows below 30 is what I call unplayable. Consistent 30 is my absolute minimum.

That's fine for you to feel that way. I'm just saying that Tears of the Kingdom was Exceptionally well received, despite it running around 30fps with huge dips in performance during some gameplay. It is evident that some gamers (perhaps console/mobile gamers more so) are less sensitive to lower frame rates and dips in performance.

In fact, 1% lows below 30 would disqualify almost any other game from even being rated playable by valve. But having cyberpunk run on the steam deck when it doesn’t run on a PS4 is a good sales pitch, so it’s clear why they verified it.

Their verification page seems to show what they are looking for. I don't think mediocre frame rates stop a game from being verified.

This. No diss to Endeavour, but Arch is just as easy using Archinstall

TMNT Turtles in Time. So overlooked. It is 100% unapologetic video game music, and it kicks holy amounts of ass.