Published May 13, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Jacob is a Senior Author at XDA with over a decade of experience in digital media. He's written for some of the largest names in the business, including Forbes, Tom's Guide, and Business Insider, and his work as been cited in Fox News and Futurism.  When he's not tinkering with the latest PC hardware and optimizing settings in the latest games, you'll find Jacob scouring the collectible shops of St. Louis and forcing his lazy corgi onto walks.  Valve has done a remarkable job with the Steam Deck . The hardware itself is great, sure, but the bedrock of Steam makes it easy to transfer your progress from Windows to Linux without any fuss. Once you start going beyond the Game Mode interface, however, you'll quickly recognize a problem: Windows and Linux don't play nicely with each other. As a fan of retro games that uses the Steam Deck as my primary emulation platform, this is a problem I've been trying to deal with for a while.…