SteamOS On Windows Handhelds Is Bringing Us One Step Closer to the Perfect Gaming Handheld

You don’t have to look hard for the best gaming handheld PC on the market today. It’s the Steam Deck, it’s always the Steam Deck, and that’s mostly thanks to the console-like ease of SteamOS. There’s good news on that front (for everybody but Microsoft). We now have several videos of SteamOS working on an Asus and Lenovo handheld, and they’re running games better than their Windows counterparts, even before the official release. Valve’s SteamOS offers the most console-like experience for handheld PCs. So after the Steam Deck maker promised that SteamOS 3.8 will support non-Valve handhelds, gamers got excited. First on the list of consoles with SteamOS preinstalled was supposed to be the Lenovo Legion Go S. The version with Valve’s operating system is supposed to arrive later this year. However, handheld-centric YouTuber Phawx posted a video of him running SteamOS on the unsupported Asus ROG Ally, one of Steam Deck’s earliest, most-capable competitors. This isn’t exactly the full Stea ... Read full article.