Valve Announces Steam Deck Game Console Based on Arch Linux

Valve has introduced a multifunctional portable gaming computer Steam Deck, supplied with the SteamOS 3 operating system, a feature of which was the transition from Debian to the Arch Linux package base. The user is given the option to either launch the Steam client with a redesigned home screen or open the KDE Plasma desktop to run any Linux application.

The console is equipped with an SoC based on a 4-core Zen 2 CPU (2.4-3.5 GHz, 448 GFlops FP32) and a GPU with 8 RDNA 2 compute units (1.6 TFlops FP32), developed for Valve by AMD. The Steam Deck also features a 7-inch touchscreen (1280x800, 60Hz), 16GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C with DisplayPort 1.4 and microSD. Size - 298x117x49 mm, weight - 669 gr. Declared from 2 to 8 hours of battery life (40Whr). The console will go on sale in December 2021 for $399 with 64GB eMMC PCIe, $529 with 256GB NVMe SSD, and $649 with 512GB NVMe SSD.

Valve Announces Steam Deck Game Console Based on Arch Linux


Source: opennet.ru

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