Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details; Launch Delayed to February

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Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing

The recording from the livestream is embedded below for those interested, but some of the key takeaways from today's developer-focused Steam Deck event included:

- Steam Deck will use an immutable root file-system, albeit can be changed for developers/enthusiasts wanting more control over the system state. The immutable root file-system approach is similar to the likes of Fedora Silverblue.

- SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available in due course for those wanting to run the Arch-based Linux distribution on other hardware.

- SteamOS 3.0 is making use of PipeWire.

- Flatpak'ed apps will be supported.

- At least initially the Steam Deck is now making use of a global frame limiter but initially is being left up to the individual games to handle. We'll see how quickly such functionality or so is built into Gamescope.

- The AMD SoC powering the Steam Deck is codenamed "Aerith" and as previously reported is a quad-core Zen 2 design with RDNA2 graphics. The TDP range for Aerith is 4 to 15 Watts. The Steam Deck should support up to two 4K screens at 60Hz via the USB3/DP 1.4 DSC interface.

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