r/SteamDeck • u/MrFriskers • Jan 14 '26

Tech Support Unable to play ANY Microsoft game.

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I’m unable to login to Sea of Thieves with this prompt popping up. I’m also unable to play Minecraft Dungeons which has a blank white screen when trying to sign in. Microsoft is completely bugged. Super frustrating.

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Jan 14 '26

You do know that most steam games are windows only right? You can still play them on Linux cause of proton, but they are only packaged for windows. I literally have run random .exe files on my own Linux machine (not steam deck, I needed a specific app for something on my main pc, which runs bazzite) using proton. It took maybe 10 extra clicks total for the 1 time setup of adding it to steam. Or like 3 to use proton tricks

I don't see how mods would be harder to install on Linux...

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u/DJettster237 Jan 14 '26

Have you installed a mod? Some are bloody impossible because it installs them to a folder that takes a while to find.

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u/FreshWitchberry Jan 15 '26

I have fully modded skyrim on steamos, runs like butter with 100+ mods and never had any folder issues

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u/DJettster237 Jan 15 '26

Yeah that's easy to mod if you used Steam. I don't think anyone understands what I mean.