Valve has been a big proponent of Linux gaming, and now the company is investing in Android support on Linux. It’s already possible to run Android in a Linux container through Waydroid, but Valve has developed a new fork – and it has officially named it Lepton.
Last month, news broke that Valve would soon support Android games on Steam. This was thanks to a sighting in Steam app changelogs for Walkabout Mini Golf, which added an APK file. The VR title is currently available on the Meta Quest (which runs on a custom version of Android), and may run through the Lepton compatibility layer for Valve’s upcoming Steam Frame VR headset, which runs the company’s Linux-based operating system, SteamOS.
The thing I wonder is will all this out live steam? How necessary is steam in the pipeline for these comparability layers?
From what I know, you can run proton outside of steam. I remember being able to use it via lutris. But maybe I’m remembering it wrong
You definitely can, because Proton is a fork of Wine, so Valve can’t keep it all to themselves.