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Help Me understand Steam Deck vs SteamOS compatibility (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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From my understanding Steam Decks come with SteamOS preinstalled on them. Yet when you look at the list of games on steam that are compatible with Linux + SteamOS, its a small fraction.

But what confuses me is this page

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck/mygames

It shows your games that are compatible with the Steam Deck which has a Linux based OS. And almost my entire library is compatible with the Deck. Can someone help me understand how this is possible? If games are compatible with the Steam Deck, why wouldn't they also work on Ubuntu for example?

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[–] NabeGewell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You can also run windows programs on Linux.

To this day i can't find image viewing software as good as irfanview which is Windows only , yet i just run that as if it's a native program