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SteamOS expanding beyond Steam Deck. Beta version going out ahead of Lenovo Go 2.

BennyBlanco

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Steam News - SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck - Steam News

The Legion Go S - Powered by SteamOS is the first officially licensed third-party handheld powered by SteamOS
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With Lenovo's announcement at CES 2025 of the Lenovo Legion Go S, we are pleased to share that their "Powered by SteamOS" model is the first handheld officially licensed to ship with Valve's SteamOS. We built this operating system to provide a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC. SteamOS is the same operating system we run on Steam Deck, and the team is making updates to ensure it fully supports the Lenovo Legion Go S and provides the same seamless experience customers expect.

In addition, the same work that we are doing to support the Lenovo Legion Go S will improve compatibility with other handhelds. Ahead of Legion Go S shipping, we will be shipping a beta of SteamOS which should improve the experience on other handhelds, and users can download and test this themselves. And of course we'll continue adding support and improving the experience with future releases.
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Good shit. Valve only benefits from getting SteamOS on as many devices as possible because it’s just driving people to your store. Only a matter of time until it’s on desktops in a meaningful way. I wonder if the beta will work on a desktop.
 
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Dorfdad

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RCX said:
The suicidal tinkerer in me wants to put this on my nvidia rig to just see what happens.
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Your the reason we can’t have nice things lol…

I’d imagine you would get some clicks on the YouTube video raging about it also!
 
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HeisenbergFX4

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I wonder what all devices SteamOS might show up on

Think New Amsterdam GIF by NBC
 
StereoVsn

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Legion Go 2 and Ally 2 with Z2 Extreme and Steam OS are going to be interesting to see. Hopefully they will still have a beefy battery similar to Ally X.

But OLED + VRR + Z2E + 32GB RAM (as fast as they can get for a reasonable price) will be pretty damn awesome unless someone manages to put in that AMD APU into a handheld.
 
Cyberpunkd

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StereoVsn said:
Legion Go 2 and Ally 2 with Z2 Extreme and Steam OS are going to be interesting to see. Hopefully they will still have a beefy battery similar to Ally X.

But OLED + VRR + Z2E + 32GB RAM (as fast as they can get for a reasonable price) will be pretty damn awesome unless someone manages to put in that AMD APU into a handheld.
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Yes, 2025 will be another great year for handheld PC (Steam) gaming. People forget that Gabe spent 13 years at Microsoft, he knowns how they operate.
 
TintoConCasera

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I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Dude leaves Microsoft, creates his own company, makes some of the best games ever and now is about to fuck Windows for good.

What a legend.
 
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TintoConCasera

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I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Tech retard here, but I wonder if switching OS could help with DX12's stutter problems.
 
jshackles

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
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I'm a little bit out of the loop, is SteamOS going to be coming to PC?
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That's basically the gist of the OP, yes. Essentially, SteamOS (the OS on Steam Deck, specifically) will be able to be loaded on "other hardware" aka off the shelf PCs
 
El Muerto

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I installed Steam OS on a htpc i built recently (i5-7600/RX6400/16gb DDR4). You miss out on all those special features that come up when you press the 3 dot button on the right side of the steam deck. But other than that it ran fine. No glitches or anything. The iso was updated from the old Steam OS a while back to the new Holo version (Steam deck version).

SteamOS

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manlisten

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I built a tiny Linux-based SFF PC that i hook up to my TV and launch directly into big picture mode. It's nice, but booting it directly into SteamOS instead would be amazing.
 
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V1LÆM

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I want SteamOS for desktop with NVIDIA support.

Might attempt another Linux install and set Steam to big picture. Every time I install Linux I run into some issue. Steam is the only hope I have in Linux gaming being done right.
 
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