Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy anyway
…Valve's leverage is growing with the Steam Deck and the upcoming Steam Machine, but Linux hit a record 5.33% of Steam's user base in the March 2026 survey, though…
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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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I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…tab on Steam makes migrating games between drives, including the freshly-configured iSCSI disk, fairly easy. And with that, it was time to start the benchmark process. Related I tested dual-boot…
Every gaming Linux distro is about to share the same foundation, and it could change everything
…We've recently seen the maturation of immutable distros , the Steam Deck normalizing handheld Linux gaming, and Proton making unprecedented strides in Windows game support. The OGC is one more reason to…
Handheld prices aren't coming back down, and the one worth buying now isn't the new one
…For instance, Valve sells refurbished Steam Decks directly through its own store. Those units are tested and backed by a warranty. That’s a solid middle ground if you want used pricing…
Lossless Scaling does 5 things DLSS and FSR simply can't match
…It runs on Intel Arc and even runs on integrated graphics, which is the entire reason it's become a fixture in the Steam Deck and Legion Go community. The frame quality…
DDR5 secretly splits every stick into two memory channels, but you still want a second one
…Valve clearly rates wide memory, too, if the Steam Deck is anything to go by. It runs 16GB of LPDDR5 across quad 32-bit channels, a full 128-bit setup soldered for…
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