Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from the PC itself

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Valve spent the last decade making Windows optional for PC gaming . Now it wants to do the same thing to x86 — the Intel- and AMD-based CPU architecture at the heart of every gaming PC. If it succeeds, the resulting shake-up could change what “PC game” even means. The Steam Deck proved Valve’s Proton compatibility layer could run an enormous library of Windows games on Linux without developers needing to port them to Linux first. That breakthrough helped make the Steam Deck a success. It also made Linux gaming legitimately viable, and laid the groundwork for SteamOS to spread to other PCs…

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Valve escaped Windows. Now Steam is breaking free from the PC itself
Valve spent the last decade making Windows optional for PC gaming . Now it wants to do the same thing to x86 — the Intel- and AMD-based CPU architecture at the heart of every gaming PC. If it succeeds, the resulting shake-up could change what “PC game” even means. The Steam...