Bring Back The Steam Play Toggle :: Suggestions / Ideas

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Pepe 9 Jul @ 6:14am

Bring Back The Steam Play Toggle

Valve has pushed this wonderful feature from the Beta channel* to the release version, where Steam Play is always on, and GNU/Linux users can't really see which games are native fully supported GNU/Linux games and which are faux supported Windows games with Proton. In the games Library, the Tux toggle is now useless, because it shows all the games, instead of just the native GNU/Linux ones.

* the precise feature:

Remove the UI toggle to disable Steam Play globally, correctly reflecting that Steam Play is always enabled on Linux. Steam Play was always partially active even when set to off in the UI as it is a requirement for Steam client operation.

I, for one, don't care about Proton-only games. Proton incentives devs and publishers to be lazy, and it offers zero legal ground for any kind of support.

I want the Steam Play toggle back, and I think I'm not the only one.

Last edited by Pepe; 9 Jul @ 6:37am

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Houtworm 9 Jul @ 6:27am

The Deck is also plagued by this issue and has been for a while already, they did this somewhere after the release of the Deck OLED. I also opened a topic about it back then but I can't seem to find it anymore.

filtering on Linux is always toggled on for me, this breaks that feature and it clutters up my library like crazy, it almost makes it unusable.

I don't mind if this would be default, but at least give us the option to opt out of this hellscape.

For me it matters whether a game is native or not, I always want Proton to be opt in on a per game basis so I know which developers actually support me and my operating system.

Stormtux 18 hours ago

Leaving the Steam play toggle option visible but enabled by default would be a better solution.

Even more important we need a way to make more recognizable in the library the native games from the games running thanks to Proton. It could be any form of metadata to filter the collection of games, but some penguin related reference would be appreciated