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Handheld gaming PCs stopped competing on chips alone in 2026. The bigger fight is over what greets you when you press the power button. Valve’s SteamOS, Microsoft’s Xbox Full Screen Experience, and the plain Windows 11 desktop are now the three real choices shaping how a $600-to-$1,800 handheld actually feels to use, and the gap…

SteamOSisn’t just a byproduct developed for Valve’s gaming hardware, and the company is proving this by expanding support for other handhelds aside from the Steam Deck. While the platform hasn’t been exclusive to the Steam Deck, more handhelds from MSI, Ayaneo, and Konkr are getting support for Valve’s latest SteamOS beta.

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SteamOS is continuing its slow march to fuller support on a wider variety of non-Valve hardware. This weekend’s release of the SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta includes “initial gamepad support” for a few recent gaming handhelds and improved support for a few others.

ETA Prime recently tested the GMKtec’s most powerful Mini PC, the EVO-X3, in both synthetic and gaming workloads. With the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128 GB of RAM under the hood, the GMKtec EVO-X3 did exceedingly well. ETA Prime has now tested the Mini PC with SteamOS, giving us a look at the performance…

The Steam Deck OLED recently got a price bump, but the next best SteamOS handheld just got cheaper.

The Steam Machine may not be the hardware breakthrough many gamers were hoping for. Even so, Valve’s announcement brings something arguably more significant: the official release of SteamOS 3.8 for standard gaming PCs. With the latest update, users can now install Valve’s Linux-based operating system on compatible desktop hardware, making it possible to build a…