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I've been playing most of my games on Linux since, well, years. When Valve introduced Proton it made things even easier, and currently I just enable Proton Experimental on Windows games and it just, works...really impressive when you think about it :)
How is the experience with online multiplayer?
I've enjoyed using my steamdeck and that OS. Would happily install a desktop variant of SteamOS when available but I mainly play single player games on the deck, I worry I won't be able to enjoy a number of multiplayer games.
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If the game has anti cheat look here https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Depends on the game's anticheat. ProtonDB is a site that tracks Steam Deck (and Linux in general) support for games. You can check what you play to see if it would run on Linux with Proton, the tool Steam uses to run Windows games on Linux. If you want a desktop similar to SteamOS, any distro that supports KDE Plasma will have the same desktop as SteamOS' desktop mode, with the new Big Picture Mode on Steam being the Steam Deck's game mode