SteamOS

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a Steam Deck with Windows 11 on its screen
Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it

By Jowi Morales Published

Why tho

Console Gaming
Steam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows support

By Andrew E. Freedman Published

Premium Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom's Hardware about the Steam Machine, it's pricing, engineering, and even Windows support.

Premium
Steamroller becomes first prebuilt gaming PC to ship with SteamOS

By Kunal Khullar Published

Steamroller is the first commercially available prebuilt gaming PC running SteamOS, pairing standard desktop components with future upgradeability.

Gaming PCs
Valve Steam Machine
Valve working on SteamOS for general release

By Jowi Morales Published

Adding Nvidia and dual-boot support will certainly make SteamOS a much more appealing solution for gamers who don’t want multiple hardware or only have a single device for both work and play.

Console Gaming
Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware

By Etiido Uko Published

A Reddit user has shown SteamOS running on an Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but the early proof of concept required a Radeon-assisted install workaround and Resizable BAR to recover performance.

Operating Systems
Linux penguins
California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

By Etiido Uko Published

SteamOS could still be affected

Linux
Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta

By Mark Tyson Published

Valve has released Proton 11.0-Beta1, with support for Arm devices.

Handheld Gaming
Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White
Steam starts gathering FPS data for performance estimates in the latest client update

By Jowi Morales Published

The latest Steam client update included an FPS data gathering component in Beta, allowing the platform to monitor your framerates and compare it with your hardware.

PC Gaming
Steam Deck
Valve adds early Steam Machine support in SteamOS 3.8

By Kunal Khullar Published

SteamOS 3.8.0 preview introduces early Steam Machine support while delivering performance upgrades, improved VRR, and broader handheld compatibility

Handheld Gaming
Torvalds confirms Linux Kernel 7.0 is almost ready for release, bringing many performance improvements with it

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Linux Torvalds confirms that the Linux kernel 7.0 is almost ready with multiple performance improvements. We could see it in April with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

Linux
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