SteamOS is coming for Intel handhelds — if Intel can keep up
… SteamOS builds were already available for other AMD-based hardware, including the Asus Ally and Lenovo Legion which even has its own SteamOS model you can buy at retail . …
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… SteamOS builds were already available for other AMD-based hardware, including the Asus Ally and Lenovo Legion which even has its own SteamOS model you can buy at retail . …
… But on the software side, SteamOS is preparing to support the upcoming hardware. That's according to the newest preview release of SteamOS, version 3.8.0. …
… Anyway, yes, SteamOS and the handheld hardware it generally runs on can do shockingly well even with games that absolutely demand smoothness and consistency. …
… SteamOS is also available for other AMD-based handheld gaming PCs, most notably the Lenovo Legion Go S, and is planned to go into the upcoming but delayed second-gen Steam Machine. But SteamOS isn't as big a chunk of the Linux userbase as you might think, at just a hair under 25 percent. …
… How relevant this is for SteamOS—and for the Steam Machine in particular—I couldn't say. …
… In the latest version of SteamOS, the new Steam Controller gets explicit support, indicating Valve is prepping it for game time. …
… I think they might be even happier to try Bazzite or SteamOS, since that's been shown to boost performance even with the headache of a new operating system.
… Which means not on my Legion Go that's currently running SteamOS — double rats! …
… Valve has leveraged its position of power to create the Steam Deck portable, and it's even licensing the Linux-based SteamOS to partners like Lenovo. …
… "Steam Deck is back in stock, with a price increase for both models due to rising memory and storage costs." We've seen similar increases for other hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go series, which now costs almost a thousand US dollars for the "affordable" Go S model that ships with SteamOS instead… …