Where the hell is SteamOS? That was one of the key questions I wanted answered when I sat down with Valve's Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, two of the longest serving members of the Steam Deck team. As always, the answer is "soon" but interestingly Valve is looking to make it available to other handhelds first, before a wider PC and laptop launch.
The promise of Valve's rejuvenated Arch-based Linux OS has ably demonstrated the power of the dedicated gaming operating system, especially when you think about what Proton has delivered when getting Windows games working in a Linux environment. And since the Steam Deck originally launched at the start of last year a general install build has always just been "soon" on the horizon.
