One of the Steam Deck’s primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment. Valve has long planned to bring the OS to other devices, but a recent Steam Deck software update includes the first mention of a rival handheld.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 27•1 month ago
Im excited for something like this as I would like to see more form factors. tv sticks, tablets, workstations, gaming laptops. I know anyone can do the last two but having a hardware vendor cover the software officialy is sorta a big thing
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English12•1 month ago
Actually a steam tv stick would go crazy never thought of that. Extreme low latency PC streaming to tv.
- ThoGot ( @ThoGot@lemm.ee ) 16•1 month ago
Isn’t that what the Steam Link tried to do?
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 10•1 month ago
The Steam Link tried and succeeded at this. My guess is only technical people understood its use-case at the time. For hardware to do well on a large scale it needs to be standalone. You turn it on and immediately see the benefit of it. Can’t be dependent on the customer’s other hardware.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 1•1 month ago
well it will help if you can get many of the same internet streaming apps you have with firetv stick and such. so people might just buy it to steam netflix and be part of the market outside of the ones using the game streaming.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 1•1 month ago
yeah and steam had a desktop I think but Im hoping it just sorta being cheaply licensed will work out better for that kind of thing.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•1 month ago
Loved that thing, I could play party games from downstairs with our 5ghz network. Made college weekends so much fun!
- Blxter ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 month ago
I believe so yes (tbh forgot it was a thing) but for example my smart TV does not have a steam link app available for some reason (LGC3) and I would definitely stream to it given the chance. Not sure why the steam app is not available.
- coolusername ( @coolusername@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month ago
use moonlight. it’s free and works well
- passepartout ( @passepartout@feddit.org ) 14•1 month ago
Oh yes please. I’d still buy a steam deck bc of their hardware support but nonetheless, this is great news for all those other released handhelds that are held back by windows.
- t�m ( @finickydesert@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 month ago
I hope
- Read bio ( @Mwa@thelemmy.club ) English2•1 month ago
Why cant they make a steamos 3.0 iso for anyone to use