SteamOS now runs 1440p games at 60fps on many AMD PCs, plus native support for DualSense and Xbox pads for easy setup.

SteamOS is slowly eating into the Windows gaming userbase, and you can look at four big reasons why. Should Microsoft be concerned?

The Steam Deck is a remarkable gadget for a lot of reasons, but Valve’s work on the handheld’s Linux-based SteamOS software ...

Big boost for Steam Deck users, SteamOS beta fixes microSD formatting issues and raises FPS in older games, giving smoother play and fewer hiccups.

The latest stable numbered version of Valve's compatibility layer Proton has arrived. Proton 10.0-4 brings lots of fixes and ...

TL;DR: Comparative benchmarking on the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld reveals SteamOS delivers significantly better gaming performance and battery life than Windows 11. SteamOS boosts frame rates by ...

What just happened? Valve recently announced an alternative to the Steam Deck compatibility rating system aimed at third-party devices. The new SteamOS Compatibility labels work slightly differently ...

Valve have put out a fresh Proton Experimental upgrade for SteamOS / Linux systems, which thankfully includes a fix for the ...

What Valve (and Codeweavers, Wine's dev team et al.) have done is nothing short of miraculous. In the article Ars themselves link re Steamboxes, the ending paragraph has this bit, which I find speaks ...

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Nexus Mods has confirmed plans to bring native SteamOS support to its Vortex mod manager in 2026, a move that will ...

That's the thing though. Linux isn't that much more "trimmed down" when you're running a distro like Fedora KDE Ediition. It's a full desktop. Sure, stuff isn't where Windows puts it and you'll need ...