As someone who games at 4k on a video card from 2017, I can confirm that VRR is a must-have feature for gaming at lower frame rates.

VRR means that falling off your set frame rate doesn’t matter. 56 FPS is just as smooth as 60 FPS. If something explodes and the game drops to 40 for a second, you don’t really notice.

Valve have said they aren’t planning on a new Steam Deck until there’s substantial technology improvements, so I wouldn’t expect to see one for at least a couple of years yet.

I’m running the Battle.net client on Linux with Wine instead of Deck and Proton, but I haven’t had any problems recently.

It last updated around two weeks ago and the previous update was two weeks before that. I’m running version 2.22.0.14235 and there’s no updates available.

There was an issue with some versions of Wine making Battle.net fail with a “This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform” message. Is that what you’re hitting, or something else?

Your comment made me put down my phone and laugh out loud until someone came and checked that I was alright.