Following the excitement surrounding the surprise announcement of the Steam Deck OLED, which has now been officially released, more questions have been raised about the possible release of SteamOS for other systems. Several Valve developers commented on this topic to the website Gizmodo and said that SteamOS 3.x for other systems would be “at the top of the list”.
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The developers also announced that the free operating system, which is based on Arch Linux, known for its timeliness, and the highly customizable desktop KDE Plasma, will be released first for other handheld PCs and only then for other systems such as desktop PCs and notebooks.
We’ll probably start by making it [SteamOS] available for other handhelds with a similar Gampad controller. And then beyond that, for any device.
- Lawrence Yang, Valve -
The background is basically self-evident, SteamOS in its current form is customized for handheld PCs in general and the Steam Deck in particular. Most of the work is on the drivers for hardware support, which is one of the reasons why Windows 11 is still struggling with handheld optimizations.
I think the biggest issue is driver support and making sure it works on every PC it lands on.
- Lawrence Yang, Valve -
Source (German): https://www.pcgameshardware.de/SteamOS-Software-258049/News/SteamOS-auf-anderen-Systemen-1434178/
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The progress on Proton, SteamOS, and the Steam Deck is honestly amazing.
Releasing SteamOS to other devices will be a huge deal - I believe it will accomplish what Steam Machines set out to do originally.
Hopefully a Steam Controller 2 will be not far behind to provide a first class controller-based experience on Linux.
Gaming has been such a barrier to Linux adoption and looks like it’s truly about to turn around. Gamers are such natural Linux allies - bringing that community into Linux will benefit the open source ecosystem so much.
A steam controller 2 would be an instant buy for me. I still have the original. While I admit it never got a massive amount of use, it is awesome.
It will not be a general Steam OS, but a device and partner specific.
AMD systems only to start with, followed by Intel based once Xe driver has been upstreamed and Mesa 24 is ready.
Maybe SteamOS for PCs could be finally the break through for desktop GNU linux. ChromeOS Flex was quite a disappointment.
Wow so no more holoiso then so many companies have windows and their own ui . Steam OS can easily become the dominant gaming handheld operating system.