{"id":485,"date":"2025-07-01T05:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-07-01T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:35:59","slug":"steam-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/steam-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam OS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Software<\/td>Steam OS<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/td>Operating System<\/td><\/tr>
Tag<\/td>OS<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Platform<\/td>Arch Linux<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Privacy Rating<\/td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr>
License Model<\/td>Free – Open Source,
Requires proprietary software<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/td>steampowered.com<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Privacy Pros:<\/strong> Great alternative to Windows for those looking for alternative gaming. OS itself is FOSS and ad-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy Cons:<\/strong> Immutable file system prevents deeper customization and hardening. Steam has integrated DRM. Incorporates Steam tracking and proprietary bits of code.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

SteamOS is an Arch Linux-based Linux distribution developed by Valve. It incorporates Valve’s video game storefront Steam; it is also the official operating system for the Steam Deck, Valve’s portable gaming device, as well as Valve’s earlier Steam Machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SteamOS was originally built as a client for video game streaming over a local network from a gaming PC. It was later extended to support some on-device gameplay, with the intent for lightweight, upgradeable PCs, known as Steam Machines, to run SteamOS for game streaming and local play. SteamOS versions 1.0, released in 2013, and 2.0, released in 2015, were based on the Debian distribution of Linux with GNOME desktop. Valve encouraged developers to incorporate Linux compatibility into their releases to better support Linux gaming options, including SteamOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2022, Valve released the Steam Deck gaming handheld. Steam Decks run a dramatically updated version of SteamOS, version 3.0, based on Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop environment pre-installed, as well as Valve’s Proton compatibility layer, allowing many games designed for Windows to run natively on SteamOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Software Steam OS Type Operating System Tag OS Platform Arch Linux Privacy Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 License Model Free – Open Source,Requires proprietary software Links steampowered.com Privacy Pros: Great alternative to Windows for those looking for alternative gaming. OS itself is FOSS and ad-free. Privacy Cons: Immutable file system prevents deeper customization and hardening. Steam has integrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-os"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}