SteamOS is one of the main drivers of Linux adoption these days thanks to its inclusion with the Steam Deck and recent Lenovo gaming handhelds, but Valve has kept official support for it to a very ...

The Linux-based operating system that powers Valve’s Steam Deck is one of that handheld gaming PC’s key selling points. While there are a growing number of handhelds that have hardware that looks ...

Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The magic of SteamOS, now on other platforms. Planning on picking up a Lenovo Legion Go S and don't like Windows? Valve has a ...

While there is some disagreement on the subject, gamers by and large prefer the Steam Deck's simple, console-like SteamOS interface to Windows 11 or the Xbox Ally X's Xbox full-screen experience. The ...

SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system designed for handheld gaming PCs. Up until now that’s largely meant that it’s the operating system that powers Valve’s Steam Deck handhelds. While folks have ...

Valve’s second big foray into first-party PC hardware isn’t a sequel to the much-imitated Steam Deck portable, but rather a desktop computer called the Steam Machine. And while it could go on your ...

It took them long enough. It looks like Valve is finally opening up SteamOS to more computers, and as we’re sure Steam Deck users will say, it’s about time. EOZ employee SadlyItsBradley has been ...

The time for Linux gaming is finally almost upon us! Valve has confirmed that SteamOS will be released tomorrow, December 13. On the same day, 300 prototype Steam Machines and Controllers will be sent ...

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In brief: One of the Steam Deck's primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment.