The store page hasn’t updated yet, but you can see the Linux Steam depots on steamdb.
This is huge. I was beginning to lose hope we’d ever see a big budget high-profile non-indie get a Linux port ever again.
Edit: Maybe not that huge…
Now that there is a Steam Deck Native build, is Baldur’s Gate 3 supported on Linux?
Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supported on Steam Deck.
I would be a little bit surprised if it doesn’t also work on Linux desktop. They’re probably just saying “don’t ask us to fix it if it breaks, we never said it would work”
Still lame
The Steam Deck comes in essentially one hardware configuration with one operating system complying to one set of standards. Linux users have a higher-than-average tendency to do weird, nonstandard shit on their computers and then complain when it breaks something. On Windows, Steam OS, and Mac, if you test it on maybe 5 different configurations, you’re done. With Linux, you have to test at least four different distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch), two different packaging formats for Steam (Flatpak, native package), and two windowing systems (X.org, Wayland). Plus the proprietary NVIDIA drivers along with open-source drivers. That’s already 32 combinations for 2% market share.
Linux has actually hit 5-6% marketshare. Your point is still valid though, but they could always just say “It might work on other Linux builds but we can’t support them”.
Linux has 2.6% on the Steam Hardware Survey.
