As the title says - what do you think the odds are that Steam Deck 2, whenever that may be, actually runs with a Windows environment instead of Linux and would you want that?
Obviously for me I’d love to just have better graphics and performance support and if that’s not possible on Windows then so be it but at the same time I’d love for it to run natively through Windows because there are so many games that we can’t play on Steam Deck because they aren’t supported.
I love what I CAN play but sometimes I just wanna sit and play Modern Warfare or something for a few minutes and that’s not possible right now (I am not really interested in getting windows installed on it cause I don’t love tinkering too much at the end of the day).
Given they said it was “painful” to hit the 64gb model cost, I’d imagine the licensing costs would wipe any possible revenue that would ultimately extend into the software (games) revenue.
So, I’d say 0% chance.
SteamOS is a fantastic distro with all the heavy lifting done, and they’ve advanced Wine/Proton so much that it would be a complete loss to jump over to Windows.
Not going to happen. There is no reason why Valve would do that. Windows is not as good as SteamOS for a handheld