Steam Hardware
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The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

tl;dw/r:

3 new pieces of hardware revealed coming “2026”.

  1. Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset. Release “early 2026”. ARM processor. Runs SteamOS. (Yes this translates games made for x86 on Windows into Linux on ARM using Proton and FEx). Inside out tracking. Up to 144Hz. 2160x2160. Can also run Android APKs. Includes 6GHz stick for wireless streaming.

  2. Steam Controller. Basically what we’ve been expecting. Just took the controls off the Steam Deck and bolted them to a controller. TMR magnetic thumbsticks. Has a weird like magnetic charging/pairing dock thingy that sticks on the back, but can still just be charged with USB-C.

  3. Steam Machine. Cubic, softball-sized mini PC (like, literally its just a computer, much like the Steam Deck). AMD GPU. Obviously runs SteamOS as well. No word on HDMI-CEC that I can find. 300W power supply. 6x more powerful than Steam Deck.

I’m going to keep updating this thread with links as I find them. Add more in the comments.

Videos:

Valve YT video

Gamers Nexus video (long and comprehensive)

Articles:

The Verge

Ars Technica

RockPaperShotgun

Polygon

Tom’s Hardware

Phoronix

  • lemonySplit@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    When it gets tired (or now) just slap steamOS or Nobara or Mint or PopOS or insert distro here on it and keep using the same comp for another 5 years with the extra overhead reclaimed

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Not gonna try and deal with Nvidia drivers on Linux if I don’t have to. Having to reinstall all games would itself be annoying.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
        62·
        2 days ago

        Nothing to deal with, either use a distro that comes with them or download them during install.

        You will have to reinstall with your other solution.

        Though if you have it on a separate drive you can add them to lutris or steam and use the existing install.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          The other commenter was suggesting I replace my perfectly writing setup right now. And you don’t need to reinstall applications when you replace hardware - but windows binaries will not run directly on Linux hence they’ll need reinstalling in that case.

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
            21·
            22 hours ago

            but windows binaries will not run directly on Linux hence they’ll need reinstalling in that case.

            Create a wine prefix, point it to the binary.

            On Lutris this is “add already installed game”

            On Steam this is “add non-steam game”

            Though if you point your steam library to the location of the games it will detect them as already installed, then you can go to properties and tell it to use proton or set all non-linux games to use proton. (Proton is a wine wrapper with a steam dependency)

            • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
              11·
              21 hours ago

              Oh, I didn’t realise I wanted to run all the games with native Linux versions through WINE.

              Tell me, what problem is it that you think you are trying to solve? Because I have a working system already so I know there isn’t a problem.

              • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                15 minutes ago

                If you’re using a win10 version that’s EOL, that’s not a safe long term solution. But I guess that was inferred rather than asked by the other commentor.

                There are notable performance improvements running games under Windows, however.