SteamOS 3.9 is the closest thing to a perfect desktop Linux I've ever used
…Related I turned my Steam Deck into a home server, and it's as crazy as it sounds If you want to find more uses for your Steam Deck, why not turn…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
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If a decade-old Nintendo Switch can run PC games, your next handheld doesn't need to be x86
…It's just like the Steam Deck, except there's an additional x86-to-Arm layer, too. You don't need to downgrade Steam, there's no patching required for Vulkan support…
I replaced Windows on my gaming handheld a year ago, and the industry caught up to me
…The Steam Machine sold out its controller in 30 minutes The driving force behind SteamOS is the hardware that Valve developed to run it. Whether it was the original Steam Deck, the…
The Steam Controller has one kryptonite, and it caused me to swap controllers
…On the Steam Deck's controller interface, lizard mode runs on a heartbeat that reasserts itself if reports stop arriving, which is why the Steam client streams configuration reports every few milliseconds…
I ditched traditional Linux for an immutable distro, but only on my gaming handheld
…Linux gaming handhelds such as the Steam Deck are pretty popular, but part of the reason for that is the fact you don't need to deal with a lot of the…
KDE Plasma became the best Linux desktop, but it's terrifying for new users
…the Steam Deck, and Valve's decision that the Deck's desktop mode would use Plasma. That meant Valve pouring engineering support into KDE's stack, and game developers now test against…
I tested the same NVMe in two generations of PCIe slot and learned why most people are upgrading wrong
…long for the Steam Deck, Legion Go 2, and others. Seagate FireCuda X1070 $460 at Official Site $327 at Best Buy $460 at Amazon What we're testing A little housekeeping before…
Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine
…Related SteamOS 3.8 just dramatically improved a lot of handhelds except the Steam Deck itself It's time for SteamOS to start branching out This is what the Steam Machine is…
AMD is giving older Radeon cards an unexpected upgrade, but it's a bigger deal than it appears
…In the past, community testing with the leaked INT8 implementation already demonstrated beyond doubt that FSR 4 at Performance preset on Steam Deck outperforms FSR 3.1 at Quality preset, which means…
Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
…Valve's tuned version of Wine, called Proton , is what makes Steam Play and the Steam Deck work. For years, every meaningful improvement to Linux gaming came from changes to Wine and…