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

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

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

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 ...

There will soon be a new compatibility rating on Steam store pages for games. Valve has announced that SteamOS hardware other than Steam Deck will get its own checkmark, meaning the title will work ...

I've long suspected that SteamOS is more efficient than Windows, and I'm far from the only one. The moment the original ROG Ally launched, comparisons between SteamOS and Windows started cropping up.

Something to look forward to: Valve's SteamOS is expected to become available for third-party devices in the coming weeks, potentially challenging Windows in the PC gaming sector. An early benchmark ...

Valve's huge new SteamOS update is finally here, and with it arrives support for the Steam Deck's rivals, Lenovo’s Legion Go and Asus’ ROG Ally series. SteamOS update 3.7.8 improves support for these ...

One of the most delightful gadgets to emerge over the past several years is the handheld gaming PC. Popularized by the Steam Deck, these are essentially tiny Windows computers stuffed into a Nintendo ...

SteamOS on an x64 tablet would rock actually. Valve has some interesting plans for SteamOS, but they don’t necessarily involve competing with Windows. Pierre-Loup Griffais, who works on the Steam Deck ...

It's unfair to compare a new device with one that's a couple of years old, but Valve's OG Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED are starting to feel a bit old compared with shiny new devices. As the first of ...

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 ...