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Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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.