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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market [if it's going to compete] (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz [M] to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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This article does a good job of talking about how poor the windows experience on a handheld is, and why SteamOS could dominate handheld devices if windows doesn't start to make serious changes to improve it's useability and performance.

To be clear, I don't want to see windows succeed here, I would absolutely love to see SteamOS take over the handheld space and be a real linux ambassador to show people that they do have other choices than windows for their computers.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is steamOS usable on laptops/desktop computers?

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[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago

No. Or rather, not yet. Valve has not released SteamOS 3 for anything other than the Steam Deck, but is planning to do so at some point in the future.

I honestly wouldn't recommend SteamOS for anything other than a dedicated gaming device though. It excels at its use case of launching games via Steam, but for everything else it is quite cumbersome... I would much rather install a general purpose Linux distribution and run Steam on it.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

No, right now it only works on the steam deck. Support for more handhelds is coming though, and eventually laptops.

Right now you can install Bazzite to a laptop, it's very similar to steamOS and will work on most everything.

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[+] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Baaron87@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

+2 for bazzite. Been running it exclusively on my desktop and laptop since June. Have no complaints

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