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…
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Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
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…Perhaps the most notable example there is Valve, which sells the Steam Deck and, at some point, the Steam Machine. However, Valve also works with a somewhat limited scope of hardware. Those…
AMD's handheld driver support is so bad that Linux is starting to look like the better choice
…I opted for GNOME to make it visually different from my Steam Deck, but really, it wouldn't have mattered if I had gone with KDE. And a few other programs supply…
Linux gamers didn't do anything wrong, but they might pay for Windows piracy anyway
…Valve's leverage is growing with the Steam Deck and the upcoming Steam Machine, but Linux hit a record 5.33% of Steam's user base in the March 2026 survey, though…
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…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…With SteamOS now available for conventional desktops, I wanted to deploy it bare-metal on my old PC, partly because I wanted to see the distro powering Steam Decks, and also because…
Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were
…Bazzite can essentially turn your Windows handheld into a Steam Deck, thanks to its SteamOS-like approach to the UI, performance, and stability. Bazzite See at Bazzite Related I replaced Windows with…
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…
Windows is learning Linux's best tricks, while Linux is learning Windows' best tricks
…The Steam Deck runs Linux, and most modern Windows games run on it without the user thinking about compatibility layers at all. That is a transformation no one in the Linux community…
This $200 Android gaming handheld is the ultimate retro hit with Linux
…Related I installed Bazzite on the Steam Deck, and I regret it I tried it, so you don't have to.