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The Linux Distribution for Steam Deck

Clayton: Most of my work has been in the operating system myself, which as you mentioned is running Linux. I believe a lot of other consoles that exist do use some open source components here and there. And we can, unfortunately for us, Igualia is working many of these areas. So it runs a normal Linux desktop. It's actually very similar to your experience, Brian, with running railroad tycoon on wine. The way it can run a lot of these PC games is through a compatibility layer.

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