I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…Take storing Steam games on my NAS, for example. On paper, housing modern titles on a different system hooked up to my home network sounds like a recipe for disaster – one that…
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The Steam Deck has an architectural secret that puts it significantly more secure than practically every other gaming handheld. It has the power of an immutable file system. The concept of an immutable file system is that the core operating system directories are entirely read-only. Valve locks down the operating system cores so that random app installs, script execution, or accidental user terminal blunders can never break or corrupt the boot files. There is an A/B partition safety net, too. SteamOS uses dual system partitions: Partition A and Partition B. When Valve pushes an OS update, it s
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My Steam Deck is gathering dust because emulation handhelds got too good
1d agoThe Legion Go 2 needs more than a Z2 Extreme to make me drop the Steam Deck
6d agoLinux 7.1 is here, and it kills i486 support, fixes Steam Deck audio, and overhauls NTFS
1w agoValve's Steam Deck price hike might be warning sign that the Steam Machine is DOA
1w agoThe latest PowerToys update brings a useful Linux-like feature to Windows 11
…Related Valve says it hasn't forgotten about the Steam Deck 2 The company claims it's still "hard at work" on the handheld.
Linux is the best way to run Android apps on your PC, and it's not close
…Related I turned my Steam Deck into an Android TV with Waydroid You can use your Steam Deck for way more than gaming. App compatibility also seems pretty solid so far, and…
Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
…Valve built SteamOS around AMD silicon that's less powerful than the Z1 Extreme, yet the Steam Deck is arguably what made the whole category mainstream. As well, FSR is supported just…
Microsoft desperately needs to steal this one Linux feature to fix Windows 11, and it's not the package manager
…This doesn't come with any compromises either, as the desktop environment still remains available through the nested desktop mode on the Steam Deck. It is, however, decoupled from the gaming experience…
Every gaming Linux distro is about to share the same foundation, and it could change everything
…We've recently seen the maturation of immutable distros , the Steam Deck normalizing handheld Linux gaming, and Proton making unprecedented strides in Windows game support. The OGC is one more reason to…
Lossless Scaling does 5 things DLSS and FSR simply can't match
…It runs on Intel Arc and even runs on integrated graphics, which is the entire reason it's become a fixture in the Steam Deck and Legion Go community. The frame quality…
DuckDuckGo wins over a surge of users as Google pushes further into AI Search
…Related The Steam Deck's price has increased from $549 to $789 as hardware woes continue The shortages have ended, for a high price.
Gaming handhelds are getting too expensive, but your old one can do more than you realize
…good reasons to switch Any of these systems can run well on even an original Steam Deck or one of the lesser-known handhelds released before it, so you don't have…
The high-end Legion Go 2's price surges to almost $3,000
…Other handhelds haven't been hit with major price increases yet It's likely only a matter of time While the Switch 2, Steam Deck , and ROG Xbox Ally X, haven't…