Machiavellian said:
I doubt that will happen. SteamDeck games when not using Windows uses OpenGL I believe for its rendering engine. Thus downloading Windows type games when using on Steam OS will not work. It would also take Valve to update SteamOS to run native windows apps which I doubt they will do because what would be the point of Steam OS. |
SteamOS can run almost all Windows games, it uses Proton to do this. SteamOS does not support DirectX so for games that only support DirectX it uses DXVK to run those games in Vulkan instead. The majority of Steam titles that run on the deck are just windows games.
The only thing stopping gamepass on steamos is all the Windows Services that Microsoft's launcher relies on as the Xbox App is still intrinsically linked to Microsoft Store which obviously does not work on SteamOS. The games themselves will work on SteamOS just fine and would just need MS to make a linux launcher/store app.
