Valve is making a significant push to expand SteamOS beyond its Steam Deck, aiming to establish it as a serious alternative to Windows for PC gaming. This Linux-based operating system is designed to ...

SteamOS will support rival handhelds once Valve is happy with it. SteamOS will support rival handhelds once Valve is happy with it. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers ...

It's official: Valve's SteamOS will be available on more platforms soon, and the first handheld PC gaming device to adopt the operating system will be the new Lenovo Legion Go S. At CES 2025, it was ...

Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in ...

SteamOS 3.9 fixed the Linux frustrations I’m tired of and came closer to a perfect desktop than I've ever seen.

SteamOS is ol' reliable when I want a Linux-gaming experience at this point.

Viraaj is a spirited gamer, lifelong PlayStation main, huge petrolhead, but most importantly, a principled journalist. With experience at publications like FandomWire, HotCars, and DriveTribe, writing ...

Something to look forward to: Steam users have long wondered about when Valve might make the Steam Deck's custom Linux distro available for other devices. While the company hasn't disclosed its ...

Steam Deck's success pushes Linux gaming to an unprecedented 5.3% market share milestone while Windows drops below 93% for ...

Valve has just announced that it's introducing another compatibility check system for gaming handhelds, this time to verify whether third-party machines running Steam Deck OS can still run certain ...

Steam gamers on PC are playing on Linux, with Valve's own SteamOS being the most popular variant. Meanwhile, Windows market share has dropped.

May 27, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Steam Deck changed the game for PC players, opening up a world of portability that was usually reserved for ...