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Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
14 Nov 2025 at 6:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

It might not be the most powerful thing on the market, but neither is the Steam Deck, and yet this is the one that's getting all the attention, despite not being sold anywhere but on Steam digital store!
I have concerns about the Steam Machine hardware that I never had about the Deck hardware. The newer GPU architecture and the low res of the screen of the Deck were chosen to hit a specific performance target. The Steam Machine is going to be plugged into a 4K TV, and the components were picked to hit a specific price. I think the lack of RAM and lack of VRAM are going to hurt it from the off, and definitely in the medium term.

Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
13 Nov 2025 at 8:23 pm UTC Likes: 5

PS: can we use Steam Link to stream a anti-cheat enabled game from a Windows computer to a Linux one running Steam?
Yes.

Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
13 Nov 2025 at 7:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Have there been any reliable leaks on timing? Are we thinking like a year from now, or maybe even as close as this winter/spring?
They've said that they'll announce a release date early next year. Whether the release will also be early or later in the year we won't know till they announce it.

Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
12 Nov 2025 at 6:59 pm UTC Likes: 4

The most interesting bit is that headset running SteamOS on ARM and the steam page claiming that it's able to play games in situ, without streaming.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/codeweavers-launch-a-new-crossover-preview-adding-linux-arm64-support/

Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
10 Nov 2025 at 5:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

This month I've exclusively been playing Hades on the Deck.

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK
10 Nov 2025 at 3:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

d3d7 is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability, and applications that for one reason or another mix and match d3d7 with older ddraw (not ddraw7) and/or with GDI are not expected to ever work
dgvoodoo2 (converts old DirectX into newer DirectX) is closed-source, so couldn't be included directly, but the author of that tool has likely worked through those quirks for many games already; it's probably worth having a conversation.

Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way
9 Nov 2025 at 1:59 pm UTC

I poked around a bit and discovered that the "SteamOS + Linux" category is also broken when viewing independently in a normal web browser.
It does appear to be broken. In the mobile app you get

"Web page not available
The web page at https://store.steampowered.com/linux?snr=1_12_74_ [External Link] could not be loaded because:

net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE"

NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version
7 Nov 2025 at 8:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

Not that I necessarily mind but can anyone tell me, is this normal?
It's a standard package management thing that if a version of a package is losing support for whatever reason then having that package will instead pull in a newer version that does have support. You won't normally be moved between branches otherwise.

The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton
6 Nov 2025 at 8:53 pm UTC

It's all I use it for.
That's sad. You should definitely try to make time for recreational gaming, and the Deck is a great device for that.