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This is what, the fourth time a Linux community gets excited about this? But that’s actually not good for us at all. Much like Android’s safety net, or the nightmare that is the Mac equivalent, the entire point will be creating an untouchable chain from the firmware to the final OS being booted, and only allowing some apps to use a specific API to attest this isn’t compromised.
This is horrendous for people trying to modify the OS or, in a more relevant tone, run programs meant for that OS on an entirely different environment. Microsoft has slowly been moving towards making this work on PCs, mostly due to pressure from DRM providers like Netflix or banking apps, but unlike Apple they can’t simply lock everything down at once and say “deal with it” because Windows lives by backwards compatibility. Either way, this is just another step towards this upcoming future.
If your favorite games now start asking Windows if the chain of trust is not tampered with… say goodbye to compatibility with Proton.
I do 99.9% of my gaming on the Steam Deck… But it’s also important to recognize when it’s time to let go.
It was released using AMD hardware in the middle of a transition to ray tracing and path tracing replacing rasterized effects. It’s great hardware, but we need to accept that new releases will probably not be compatible with this system.
It’s also worth noting that although very limited, the Steam Deck does actually support hardware accelerated ray tracing.
Even if they change absolutely nothing, Windows on a handheld is an infuriating experience, which is saying a lot, because the desktop version isn’t very good either.