…fully supporting Linux and thoroughly appreciating the work that went into Proton. Valve's renewed push into the living room with the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and updated SteamOS allows one to…
…With this update, SteamOS stops being "just for the Steam Deck" and starts becoming something a lot broader. Wider compatibility is the headliner here with SteamOS 3.9. SteamOS now runs across…
…The latest SteamOS updates squeeze more life out of the original Steam Deck's AMD APU, and both Wine and Proton can now use the mainline NTSYNC kernel driver to better map…
…That's before considering that SteamOS and any other Linux distro aren't even running the game natively and have to translate Windows API calls into ones that can be used by…
…a home server? SteamOS has a read-only root filesystem by default, and while you can disable it or install another Linux distro, doing so removes automatic update support and adds maintenance…
…With SteamOS now available for conventional desktops, I wanted to deploy it bare-metal on my old PC, partly because I wanted to see the distro powering Steam Decks, and also because…
…Valve had a commercial reason to make Linux gaming viable for non-technical users, and SteamOS pushed Proton from an interesting hobbyist project into something that has to work for millions of…
…We've already seen recent SteamOS updates laying the groundwork for the OS expanding outward , along with tiny quality-of-life updates that are clearly setting the stage for the Steam Machine…
…the version with either the Stable or Beta branch of SteamOS, and it tends to break when SteamOS gets an update, making you go back into desktop mode to reinstall Decky to…
…The Steam Deck succeeded because Valve built a bespoke Linux operating system, in the form of SteamOS , around a controller interface. Windows handhelds like the ROG Ally X, the Lenovo Legion Go…