On this;
I’m getting it regardless, waited too long for a Switch Pro to never crop up yet. 
It will work.
I have played World of Warcraft using Proton. In fact I’m doing it right now and I will raid mythic on it tonight.
On Arch Linux.
On KDE.
While running Steam.
On a computer a little slower than that.
I know controllers work great in Linux, although I found that WoW couldn’t pick them up even though they worked in literally every other game. It would be fantastic if Blizzard could find a way to solve that such that ConsolePort works in Linux.
Once that’s done you can just play to your heart’s content!
Of course you could also install Windows but I have a feeling it won’t be a great experience, but up to you.
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WoW with a controller is simply a great experience. It’s so great that I think Blizz should just hire the ConsolePort devs, buy the addon from them and make it an officially supported mode for playing the game.
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I guess they didn’t think much about aesthetics. The controller doesn’t look comfortable either.
Frankly looks more comfortable than the Wii U controller, and I could play using that for many hours. I don’t think this will be a problem, but I guess we’ll see.
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There are Windows handhelds already - Aya Neo, GPD Win 3 as well as 7"+ laptops from One Mix, GPD and alike. Steam Deck is slightly inferior for this as it’s not running Windows.
I did an overview of available devices:
https://rk.edu.pl/en/world-warcraft-handheld-and-umpc-devices/
Personally, Not a big fan of MMO games in such a small monitor.
Now if it was Xbox or PS4~5, then sure.
But i suppose FF14 already has console compatibility. Which leaves wow to do the same.
Looks interesting especially for indie & emulators.
But I honestly doubt it can run SL. It definitely can run Classic tho, in case you suddenly feel the need to grind board in elwynn forest
It easily should be. Existing Intel Xe and AMD Vega 6/7/8 can run WoW 1080p on mode 2-3 (low) rather easily. On top of that Steam Deck uses a newer design with faster memory (but it doesn’t run Windows by default so either Wine or Windows…).
Do 't you need a SSD for a decent experience tho ? I played BFA on a decent laptop but HDD disk & I really struggled with both overheating & loading times.
Playable sure but wasting a minute for each loading screen is a pain
Must’ve missed something along the line cuz I don’t see the link between Steam’s console & the switch. The performance of a similar console perhaps ? AFAIK steam don’t use switch components
The base model is eMMC only but the other two have NVMe SSD. Even good SATA SSD would do for WoW.
Ah, my typo. I was refering to LPDDR5 in Steam Deck while previous laptop/handheld Ryzen/Intel designs using LPDDR4X or just DDR4.
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Don’t think i would enjoy tripple A games much when i commute.
Who says anything about commuting [I drive to work though]? I could play while I’m on a break inbetween flights at work. 
Well i was just looking at it as a handheld, so it would compete with my phone it’s not for me,
but i am sure some people will find use for it.
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