Steam Machine to launch with approximately 30,000 playable games thanks to Proton compatibility
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Liam Squires-Hand
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The article discusses the upcoming Steam Machine launch and highlights that one of its major advantages is the massive library of playable games—around 30,000—thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer. Unlike the original failed attempt at Steam Machines, which suffered from a lack of native Linux games, Proton now allows Windows games to run seamlessly on SteamOS Linux, solving the previous game availability problem.
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· 3 pulledOne benefit of SteamOS Linux and Valve's ecosystem is the sheer amount of games available - and ahead of the Steam Machine launch there's a ridiculous amount.
Remember the original attempt at the Steam Machine? Part of the reason it never really worked is that there simply weren't enough Native Linux games (those actually built for Linux).
This is pretty much a solved problem now thanks to Proton to run Windows games where most of the time you can't even tell so the
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