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Here's the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for August 2025 - with Hollow Knight the champion
2 Sep 2025 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Halo:MC remains in the list. I hope some day the fix the issue that Steam Deck (Linux?) can't play co-op with windows.

They did add a special error message to the game, which specifically mentioned the Steam Deck. So, they did that instead of fixing it.

JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine
6 Aug 2025 at 6:13 am UTC Likes: 2

@williamjmc, JetBrains Rider already supports Godot. It detects automatically that it's a Godot project and shows the appropiate debugging buttons in the IDE (with the actual Godot icon). But only for the .NET version (which I use), because Rider is for C# only.

I actually think they see Rider being used with Godot a lot and that made them support the Godot project.

AMD revealed two more Ryzen Z2 chips for gaming handhelds
10 Jun 2025 at 7:23 am UTC

Does anybody happen to know which 'Ryzen AI' hardware sould work with Steam OS, if at all? Or maybe some way to figure out which hardware should and should not work with Steam OS?

Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
24 Apr 2025 at 3:57 pm UTC

Great. I'll start looking for an alternative.

(Edit)
My guess is that Steam Chat will be it for most people

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer
14 Jan 2025 at 6:18 am UTC Likes: 1

In my understanding Lost Boys did not close, they became Guerilla Games.

Valve's new branding guidelines hint at Steam Deck's SteamOS for more devices
5 Dec 2024 at 7:47 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Leahi84Do you think SteamOS would ever be a viable desktop distro?
Yes, I would think so. I have been using the SteamDeck as my main device for hobby projects (still in an exploring/testing phase, but enjoying it so far)

About it being immutable: I had to make it mutable to install .NET. But this is not something most people would need to do (Rider has a blog on how to install their IDE and .NET on SteamDeck). For all other stuff I had zero issues: attaching all kinds of controllers and other hardware, using Discord, Aseprite, MagicaVoxel (which has no Linux build), etc. No problems.

Personally I would like a laptop with SteamOS. With all the performance/battery options the OS gives you. And a very impressive sleep mode that even works for games (and Windows can't do).

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.15 Beta: Zoomer Edition released
24 Sep 2024 at 10:23 am UTC

Does anybody know if the sleep function also works in Desktop mode? And, if so, does it work with any application, or only applications started from Steam?

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
23 Sep 2024 at 11:50 am UTC Likes: 1

Maybe it's for running Quest games (which run on Android) on (standalone) Deckard (which, I assume, will run on SeamOS). So developers don't have to do any porting when they want to deploy their game to both Quest and Deckard.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.12 Beta released as the first Release Candidate
6 Sep 2024 at 9:36 am UTC Likes: 4

Some day I hope to have a gaming laptop running SteamOS. Being able to tune fps, resolution, watt, etc. And having a full desktop.

Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA
20 May 2024 at 2:03 pm UTC

Would you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?