The Legion Go S is the start of a new era in gaming...

Steam Deck is no longer the only SteamOS handheld and I'm absolutely here for it! Valve's been hard at work preparing SteamOS for the Lenovo Legion Go S - Powered by SteamOS (yes, that's the official name) and we're about to see a new Operating System vendor enter the chat.

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00:00 Introduction
01:11 The Verge's coverage
02:11 The base models for each SKU
05:09 The name is... a choice
05:58 Breaking down the specs
09:08 Valve's official announcement post
10:53 Valve's frequently asked questions

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[n.m]

Valve doesn't care about competition on the console. They want more people to use steam so they get their cut. Gabe is playing intergalactic 5D chess

[andreaspatsalides]

"The direct competitor of the Steam Deck"
*Runs the exact same operating system*

Considering the Deck wasn't making profits but rather just to put steam on people's hands (and make profits from that), this can only be a good outcome for Valve (much deserved!)

[jorgerodriguez]

the year of the linux desktop is really coming

[mamaharumi]

The Lenovo partnership is exciting to me because it opens up the possibility of them eventually offering SteamOS for their gaming laptops. That'd be a huge step in legitimizing Linux as a viable alternative to Windows, imo.

[FunBotan]

The _steam_ train is slow to accelerate, but once it does, there's no stopping it from _steamrolling_ the competition 😁

[JoshuaT]

Hopefully this will encourage developers to support linux at least through proton

[tohur]

Not to mention SteamOS is being released for EVERYONE to try on our own hardware

[molsen]

5:05 look like love hating on windows as much as the next guy, but is the 1tb windows version really gonna be installed with 500gb worth of bloatware to make it a "negligible" difference to the 512gb steam version? I find that hard to believe.

[snowblindu]

My steam deck is still good enough. Not very excited for this... yet. I want to see what it can do that my steamdeck can't. Will it have better grill smell?

[Jayw-clpq]

I see this 16gb ram, 512gb storage for the SteamOS version on some videos and I don't know why some of the videos keep omitting that the SteamOS version also has a 32gb ram, 1tb storage option as well. That was confirmed by Lenovo and it's listed on their product sheets at their CES booths. I'm not sure why some of these videos keep trying to make it seem like the SteamOS version is only getting 16gb ram.

[Slinkynx]

Also keep in mind that they need to pay licensing fees to ship windows on the device, hence the more expensive price tag besides the bigger HDD

[JalapenoPrime]

Hopefully by this time next year it's available for desktops and even better thinking hopefully some companies start to enable their anti-cheat for Linux.

[Phynellius]

I feel like the non handheld public release of Steam OS 3 is going to be held back a little until a few more handhelds are supported, definitely some time in the next 12 months probably I guess?

[TheGrandRapidian]

Nice video. I did ask PCMag in their interview with Pierre-Loup Griffais (Valve's Engineer present at the event) if they talked Nvidia offline, and I hope they did, and that it is positive.

[stealthhunter]

Is there any good videos on windows vs Linux performance for Nvidia cards?

[steveybiggunzgaming]

Im curious what the z2 go vs the z1 extreme results will be

[glovedcop]

Would love to see a tutorial on installing steam os on the ROG ALLY X! 😊

[coldsun]

I hope I can put SteamOS on my original Legion Go. I love that thing. Right now I'm using Bazzite on it.

[ChrisVsRPG]

Man this is the perfect looking handheld for me 🤩

[KeyboardSavant]

Valve’s long-term play here is brilliant! Distribution and a larger install base is what they are aiming for. This translates to more data.

They can sit back and be patient, as everything has now been set in-motion.