Hello everybody!

Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform?
I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.

Javier


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Re: Latest Valve's announcement
By: Javier Sturman to All on Thu Nov 20 2025 03:25 pm

Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform? I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.

I don't have a Steam Deck, but I do use Steam. I use it mainly in Windows, but a couple years ago, I installed Steam in Linux, and I've since installed a couple Linux-native versions of games from Steam: X-Plane 11 (and 12, I believe) and Overload (a 2018 successor to Descent/Descent 2). I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of those games in Linux (though of course, those games aren't developed by Steam/Valve themselves).

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Javier Sturman wrote to All <=-

Hello everybody!

Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on
my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform? I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.

Are they coming out with a new Portal yet? :-)



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Hello jimmylogan!

20 Nov 25 13:15, you wrote to me:

Are they coming out with a new Portal yet? :-)

A mew Half Life it seams.

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I dont think the steam machine will be that affordable, but if i didnt own so many electrical devices such as switch 2, macbook air, ipad and a windows laptop, i would have been open to a steamdeck.

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Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on
my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform?
I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.

The Steam Deck ain't perfect, but if you want mine, you'll have to pry it
from my cold, dead hands. It's perfect for certain types of games, and it's
my favorite emulation machine ever.

So many non-linux games "just work" - no muss, no fuss. Brilliant.

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I don't have a Steam Deck, but I do use Steam. I use it mainly in Windows, but a couple years ago, I installed Steam in Linux, and I've since installed a couple Linux-native versions of games from Steam: X-Plane 11 (and 12, I believe) and Overload (a 2018 successor to Descent/Descent 2). I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of those games in Linux (though of course, those games aren't developed by Steam/Valve themselves).

Same on Mac. Steam/Valve did a lot of good job with wine backed launchers to launch windows only games on other major OSes. Not even speaking that more companies are actually releasing multiplatform these days.

Windows is not that critical for PC gaming anymore.

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Re: Re: Latest Valve's announcement
By: hollowone to Nightfox on Fri Nov 21 2025 01:50 pm

Same on Mac. Steam/Valve did a lot of good job with wine backed launchers to launch windows only games on other major OSes. Not even speaking that more companies are actually releasing multiplatform these days.

That's cool. I've noticed that myself - A couple of the games I've played in the last several years have had multi-platform releases. And one of the games I discovered recently (Overload) was released in 2018, and it was released for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

Windows is not that critical for PC gaming anymore.

Why is that? Is it because there are more Mac and Linux users these days? I thought Windows was still important for PC gaming, as a lot of game developers still seem to at least make a Windows release by default.

I thought I'd heard that a lot of people these days don't have a PC of any kind anymore though (which seems odd to me), so I'd think consoles might be a significant factor these days (as they always were).

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Windows is not that critical for PC gaming anymore.

Why is that? Is it because there are more Mac and Linux users these
days? I thought Windows was still important for PC gaming, as a lot of game developers still seem to at least make a Windows release by Ni> default.

Oh.. what I meant is that it is not that critical REQUIREMENT for PC gaming anymore. It's of course most popular and relevant continually.. but it has developed this position due to the practical requirement which is not blocking to test and play PC games on a variety of PC computing platforms these days and Steam supports that very well!

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