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Portable Linux Gaming with the Steam Deck

By Simon McVittie

Valve’s new Steam Deck comes with a new release of SteamOS, a specialized Linux distribution for gaming devices, which Valve and Collabora have been working on together for several years. Based on Arch Linux, a rolling-release distribution that includes the latest Mesa release for open-source accelerated graphics support, SteamOS 3 also comes with a brand new A/B design for seamless system updates.

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