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Saturday, May 30th 2026 SteamOS Update Adds Support for Slew of Gaming Handhelds and VRR on HDMI by Cpt.Jank Today, 08:39 Discuss 1 Comment Valve's SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta update has officially been announced, and although it brings the usual list of bug fixes and stability updates, the new update also … …
… The update also adds or improves overall platform and controller support for a host of gaming handhelds, including: OneXPlayer F1 series, Apex and X1 GPD Win 5 GPD Win Mini Anbernic Win600 Lenovo Legion Go 2 Upcoming Intel Arc handhelds MSI Claw A1M, 7AI+, 8 AI+ A2VM, A8 BZ2EM Source: SteamOS 8 Com… …
Tuesday, June 30th 2026 SteamOS Beta Update Adds dGPU VRAM Management Patch by Cpt.Jank Today, 06:21 Discuss 4 Comments In April 2026, Natalie Vock, a software engineer famous for contributions to Valve's Linux gaming stack, published a series of patches to improve VRAM usage on Linux, largely dire… …
… Currently, the SteamOS and Steam Machine compatibility ratings are hidden in a fly-out window under a UI block called "SteamOS compatibility." The window shows three tabs, for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and then general SteamOS, all of which have their own specific compatibility requirements. …
… According to him, Valve has been working on expanding SteamOS compatibility with other hardware, even collaborating with NVIDIA to bring support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs to SteamOS, alongside numerous optimizations. …
… In the case of SteamOS, although the underlying Arch Linux-based distribution is open-source and exempt, the included Steam Client is still a proprietary app store that will likely require age data. …
… In terms of actual gaming and productivity performance, SteamOS and Windows mostly trade blows, but Windows does have a few notable performance wins over SteamOS. …
… The issue is with the SteamOS installer which doesn't support making it easy yet : While Steam Deck and Steam Machine are fully capable of dual-boot, the SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn't ready yet. This will ship alongside SteamOS once it's complete. …
… Ever since the Playnix which died btw I was wondering if we would ever see a big name retailer sell PCs with SteamOS a PC in kit with a SteamOS install tutorial is very close and I gotta say, I'm pleasantly surprised by this, this is pretty cool ngl Exilarch Stim Machine? …
… KDE Plasma Bigscreen is fully open source and is designed around a controller friendly desktop interface that uses a similar row-based layout and quick access to settings as SteamOS, but, unlike Valve's SteamOS, you don't need to rely on adding apps to Steam to launch them from the Bigscreen UI. …