You can jury-rig your own GeForce Now app on Deck, but a native Linux app would be such an easy win.

“There is not a native app on Steam deck today,” said Andrew Fear, GFN boss, back in January. “Use a Chromium browser to make it work. I would say that both Nvidia and Valve, I think we’re both interested in making [GeForce Now on Steam Deck] better. But we don’t have any announcements on a native app coming to Steam.”

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    92·
    1 year ago

    Yup but it enables gamers with lesser hardware to play these games.

    Not everyone is as lucky to have the hardware to run things locally or streamed from their beefy PC.

    • AttackPanda@programming.devEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Ahhhh. I get it now. So it runs on NVIDIA machines, not local machine so that is the difference. With the Steam Link (or whatever it’s called) you run the workload on your desktop and stream to like the Deck. With the NVIDIA solution, you stream the workload from the cloud. That makes sense to me now.