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Lenovo’s handheld strategy may be preparing its boldest pivot yet: multiple industry reports claim the company is testing a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go Gen 2 and could put that model on stage at CES 2026 — a move that would directly challenge Windows‑first handheld assumptions and...

A surprising new twist in the handheld-PC arms race has emerged: reports indicate Lenovo may ship a SteamOS-powered version of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026, offering Valve’s handheld-optimized Linux experience as an alternative to Windows on a top-tier AMD-powered device. If true, this would...

Lenovo’s handheld gamble just got louder: an exclusive report claims the company will ship a SteamOS‑powered version of the Legion Go Gen 2 at CES 2026, pairing Valve’s console‑style operating system with AMD’s desktop‑class Ryzen Z2 Extreme silicon to deliver a full‑fat handheld gaming...

Linux gaming has quietly crossed a new milestone: for the second month in a row the Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Linux users climbing to a record share of the platform, reaching 3.2% of all Steam users in November 2025 — a modest fraction of the total, but a clear and sustained uptrend...

Linux’s share of active Steam clients climbed again in November 2025, hitting 3.20 percent of the platform’s reported user base — a new all‑time high and the second consecutive monthly gain after October’s breakthrough — driven largely by SteamOS installs, growth in gaming‑focused distributions...

Valve’s quiet, long-running bet on Arm just turned public: the company is funding and integrating open-source translation tools so that Windows (x86/x64) games can run on Arm-based SteamOS devices, and it’s actively porting Proton and SteamOS to Arm to make that future practical for handhelds...

Valve’s Steam Machine is shaping up to be an intriguing living‑room PC, but recent tests show a clear and repeatable weakness: a GPU with only 8GB of dedicated VRAM can become a performance bottleneck — and, in current SteamOS betas, that bottleneck appears worse than the same hardware running...

Microsoft’s blunt advisory that Windows 11’s experimental “agentic” AI features introduce novel security risks has refocused a long-running debate about where convenience ends and vulnerability begins — and it arrived not as a marketing footnote but as a front‑page safety notice built into...

SteamOS’s newest run of bench numbers isn’t a niche talking point any more — it’s a practical challenge to the default assumption that Windows is always best for PC gaming on handheld hardware. Recent, apples‑to‑apples tests on the Lenovo Legion Go S show SteamOS 3.7 routinely delivering higher...

Switching my ROG Ally X from Windows 11 to SteamOS turned the device from a fiddly, underused handheld into a genuinely enjoyable on‑the‑go gaming machine — the interface is cleaner, the Steam‑first workflow fits the handheld form factor, and in real‑world tests I saw measurable improvements in...

ARC Raiders is officially playable on the Steam Deck: Valve’s Proton 10.0-3 update has cleared the compatibility roadblocks that forced Deck owners to rely on community Proton forks, and the extraction shooter that dominated 2025’s launch conversation is now carrying its momentum into portable...

Valve’s new Steam Machine landing in the living room — a compact, SteamOS‑first mini‑PC that promises a plug‑and‑play console feel while keeping the openness of a PC — has sparked a serious reappraisal of whether Windows 11 can remain the default platform for mainstream PC gaming. Background /...

Valve has quietly re-entered the living‑room hardware race with a compact, SteamOS‑first mini‑PC called the Steam Machine, accompanied by a new Steam Controller, and a long‑rumored VR headset (the Steam Frame, formerly "Deckard")—a lineup that aims to bring Steam, PC flexibility, and...

Valve's living-room return to PC gaming landed as a compact, SteamOS-powered cube that promises a console‑style plug‑and‑play experience with desktop-class silicon — a six‑core Zen 4 CPU, 16 GB DDR5, and a semi‑custom RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units and 8 GB of GDDR6 — engineered to hit 4K/60...

Valve’s new Steam Machine is being presented as a compact, living‑room‑friendly way to run your Steam library — built and sold by Valve, powered by SteamOS and Proton, and explicitly positioned as a reference device that Valve hopes will invite other companies, modders, and everyday PC builders...

Valve’s new Steam Machine promises console‑style convenience with PC performance, but the one‑line truth for multiplayer fans is blunt: the Steam Machine will inherit the Steam Deck’s anti‑cheat problem unless publishers, anti‑cheat vendors and Valve change course — and right now the technical...

Valve’s surprise hardware salvo landed like a thunderclap: a compact new Steam Machine that Valve says is “over 6x more powerful than the Steam Deck,” built to deliver 4K/60 gaming in a palm-sized cube and accompanied by a refreshed Steam Controller and the Steam Frame VR headset. Early hands‑on...

Linux gaming has quietly hit a milestone: Valve’s October Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows Linux at 3.05% of active Steam users for the first time, a symbolic but meaningful jump that reflects the combined effects of the Steam Deck/SteamOS ecosystem, better compatibility tooling (Proton)...

The Steam community’s October 2025 snapshot finally pushed Linux over the psychological 3% mark on Valve’s monthly Hardware & Software Survey, a milestone that matters because it’s driven largely by Valve’s own Steam Deck ecosystem and the continuing expansion of SteamOS Holo—an outcome that...

Steam's October 2025 Hardware & Software Survey shows a clear — and consequential — reshaping of the PC gaming landscape: Windows 11 is now the majority OS among Steam users, but a substantial minority remain on Windows 10 while Linux has crossed the 3% mark on Steam for the first time, driven...