Steam Hardware

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

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

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[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

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These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

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Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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Valve reconfirm the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller are due in 2026 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I want to install an OS once, and never be forced to change it on that machine.

I’d be wary of putting all your eggs in a single basket, many people believed Windows was the be-all OS until Microsoft started making funky decisions ultimately changing people’s perspective of their business.

Steam is great now but consider who is going to replace Gabe Newell when he retires or passes away. Think about Steam as a business in 10-20 years and what will change in their policies.

I prefer Valve. 800lb gorilla, main driver of Proton, not likely to suddenly vanish or change leadership, brand recognition means many people will develop extensive documentation and implementation specifically for SteamOS

Under the hood SteamOS/Bazzite are Arch based whereas Ubuntu/PopOS/Linux-Mint are Debian based, the documentation that really matters is going to come from these base gorrillas.