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Gigachadtoday at 11:47 AM1 replyview on HN

This is what the Steamdeck is. But it took an absolutely massive amount of work over a decade from valve just to get gaming working. No laptop manufacturer could afford to do the same for fixing wine for desktop software since they aren’t getting a cut of the software sales like valve does.


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jacquesmtoday at 11:51 AM

That's mostly because they didn't care before. It also took a massive amount of work to get gaming to work on windows.