With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market
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Valve has begun its quest to bring SteamOS to other handheld consoles, and Microsoft should be worried.

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.

  • nocturne
    7·
    4 months ago

    Is steamOS usable on laptops/desktop computers?

    • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de
      16·
      4 months 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.

    • FubarberryOPMEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      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.