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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame (lemmy.world)
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Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Also listed here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Valve has already sent support for the new Steam Controller upstream: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame for release in 2026. There is an image of a Steam Controller, which looks like a hybrid between the original Steam Controller and the layout and trackpads of the Steam Deck.
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Since the Steam Machine is more like an entry PC and not a console (and will be priced as that), does that mean that SteamOS for desktop will be officially supported?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it's an ongoing effort.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's a big challenge, but a worthwhile one. The reason that Microsoft exploded in the DOS era was because it ran on everything that was "IBM compatible" aka x86. Meanwhile Apple was over there with a competitive product, but you could only run the software on their OS that ran in their hardware. People were able to get cheap third party x86 compatible computers and run MS-DOS (and later Windows), and they were not locked into a specific vendor doing top to bottom hardware/software support.

    If they do this right, they'll be the go to option for a lot of people who generally use their PC primarily for gaming.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not to mention that Steam does have competition as an app store, stuff like GOG. I mean, it's a little bit obnoxious to use both at once, but really not that much of a hassle.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In their announcement video, they specifically called out that you can install whatever software you want and showed somebody working on CAD. So, yeah, definitely.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, it's supported on two specific pieces of custom hardware, the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. They'll get there with general support, but SteamOS isn't there yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Well, there's official support for some third party handhelds if I remember correctly? Asus and the like? And they just announced that the steam frame (vr headset) will also run steamos, and that's on a snapdragon ARM SoC. Pretty exciting stuff ahead

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, it's not released or supported outside of the Steam Deck or handheld partners. So you're probably not going to get Nvidia drivers or anything else that's not built in to the kernel.

    You don't need it though, you can just run Steam in big picture mode on whatever distro you want.

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