…effectively stopped hardware refresh cycles dead in their tracks at the moment, and standalone manufacturers aren't able to ship next-generation devices at sustainable price points. The Steam Deck saw a…
…meet their fixed hardware target. If RAM prices don't normalize by 2027, then these devices might be canceled in favor of a singular and more expensive Steam Deck 2. Nvidia's…
…In 2015, it launched Steam Machines, a line of Linux-based gaming PCs running SteamOS. The hardware was fine, but the game library wasn't there. SteamOS depended on developers shipping native…
…Developed by Valve for the Steam Deck, the company inadvertently created the greatest thing to happen to Linux since the ext file system. With Proton, you can install and play most games…
…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…
…Time to relinquish my Steam Deck to the kiddo, and use the higher-powered hardware I have been neglecting. I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was When we had access…
…SteamOS on the Steam Deck paved the way for the current popularity of Linux as a viable platform for gaming. The three-pronged foundation of Proton, Vulkan, and Mesa that is keeping…
…As powerful as this smartphone is, I can't run Cyberpunk 2077 and other demanding games like you could on a gaming PC or even something like a Steam Deck. That said…
…The Steam Deck proved there's a real market for Linux gaming hardware, and the upcoming Steam Machine aims to push that further. But the ecosystem is built on a foundation that…
…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…