With all the hype surrounding Steam Machines at this year's CES, it's easy to forget that purchasing a brand new system isn't the only way to check out Valve's vision for the future of PC gaming. The ...

If you have an old Windows laptop gathering dust, there are plenty of creative ways to make it useful again. You could turn it into a second monitor, repurpose it as a file server, or even convert it ...

Performance for Windows 11 25H2 vs. SteamOS 3.9 on the same hardware. In general, Windows edges out SteamOS on dedicated GPUs ...

The time for Linux gaming is finally almost upon us! Valve has confirmed that SteamOS will be released tomorrow, December 13. On the same day, 300 prototype Steam Machines and Controllers will be sent ...

What if you could take the best of two worlds, innovative hardware and a gamer-friendly operating system, and create the ultimate handheld gaming device? That’s the question I set out to answer when I ...

What if the future of handheld gaming didn’t revolve around Windows? Imagine a sleek, high-performance device that ditches the familiar Microsoft ecosystem for a bold, Linux-based alternative, one ...

Valve’s Steam Deck “Verified” program is pretty great, but extremely specific to… well, the Steam Deck. But now that SteamOS is expanding into other non-Steam Deck devices, we’re going to need ...

SteamOS is coming to PC handhelds other than Valve’s own Steam Deck. We heard a short but official confirmation last year, and then Lenovo confirmed a SteamOS-flavored version of its new Legion Go S ...

Late on Friday, December 13, Valve released the first public version of SteamOS. As you would expect, SteamOS is currently very rough around the edges -- it is essentially just a version of Debian 7.1 ...