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I know logically that people can do whatever they want and it doesn't affect me in any way so I shouldn't care, but I do still get a visceral eye-twitching feeling whenever someone talks about installing Windows on a Steam Deck. It's like someone buying a sports car and using it to tow a caravan or something.
I mean there’s a time and a place.
What if someone has gamepass or a ton of free games on EGS?
Can't you play both of those from SteamOS?
You can play non streamed games on steamos now?
Edit: Gamepass games
Non streamed? You mean just running the game on the device? You could run games on steamos since it first released in 2013.
Sorry, I was referring to game pass games. They're exclusive to windows because they're built as windows apps or something.
He means from Gamepass. On many non-microsoft platforms, the only way to play Gamepass games is streaming via xcloud
On Windows, Gamepass games can be installed locally from the GP app, but last I checked the GP app was still Windows-only