- Valves Steamos 3.7.0 Defanion Supplied with “Beginnings on Support for Non-Steam Deck-handheld”
- Non-Steam Deck Handheld PCs could soon use Steamos instead of Windows 11
- Such a movement could detach more power from handhelds by them like Asus, Lenovo and MSI
I would lie if I said I would not wish in ages that the valve opened steamos to other handheld PCs and machines over its excellent steam tires. And after some waiting time, it seems that it is finally happening with the recent steam’s 3.7.0 advance view, which comes with “Beginnings of Support for Non-Steam Deck-handheld.”
Now it is not a big amount to go off as it is only for a preview version of Steamos. But with a model of Lenovo Legion, driven by Steamos and set to arrive in May, we could see the emergence of a new series of Steamos-based handheld PCs.
There are already ways to run Steamo’s on un-fitted tire machines, but support for them is unofficial and they lack the smooth handheld integration of steam into the same vein as the steam deck. The best handheld PCs tend to run Windows 11 with some kind of handheld interface on top of the operating system and then tap in Steam’s large image mode to enable a console -like handheld gaming experience.
Having native Steamos support would certainly make all this smooth the new handheld PCs and those that could be retrofitted or double-clad with Valve’s Linux-based operating system. In our practical time with Lenovo Legion Go’s, we were definitely sold on the idea of the Steamos version.
Steaming dreams
While I still want Microsoft to work on refining Windows 11 to work more smooth on handheld PCs, especially if it really does a form of Xbox handheld, I feel Steamos is more up to the task of supporting handheld PC games, especially considering it has had some three years to mature.
What excites me further is that by dropping Windows 11 Reliance, Handheld PCs from Asus, Lenovo and MSI could use an operating system that requires less fixed resources and thus can lock more power out of the chips on handheld PCs.
The steam deck AMD ZEN 2 and RDNA 2-based APU are not as powerful as other chips in other handhelds, such as Asus Rog Ally X, which has a more powerful AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor and RDNA 3-based graphics. But the steam deck undoubtedly offers the smoothest and smoothest gaming experience when taking into account software and hardware in tandem.
Letting Steamos take care of the operating system and interface can be the best of both worlds, with e.g. A next generation ROG-allied, which has a powerful monkey with silicon horsepower that can easily be accessed thanks to a lesser need for fixed calculates resources.
All of this could open a new path to handheld PCs that could finally challenge the steam cover, at least in my eyes.
The only warning would be access to third -party mute services. Steamos and Steam Deck were built around users tapping on the wide range of games supported in Steam Store, rather than giving easy access to Xbox Game Pass or the epic game -Launcher.
However, there are already solutions to getting like Xbox Cloud games running on the steam deck; Valve does not appear to deter this. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see hardware manufacturers work to build on Steamos to integrate other lifting rockets in a neat, user -friendly way.
It’s hard to say when we could see more Steamos-based handhelds. But considering that we have just got the latest SteamO’s advance display, it should not be long before a full version is released into nature; It could come in April.
If that happens we could see a bunch of handheld PCs avoiding Windows 11 to Steamos this page of 2025; I cross my fingers.
