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Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing [phoronix.com]

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.

Steam Deck Shipping Delayed Until February 2022 [wccftech.com]

The launch of Steam Deck will be delayed by two months. We're sorry about this—we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren't reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates.

Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement.

See also: Steam Deck SoC Is Codenamed Aerith; Valve Recommends Capping FPS, [FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR)] Will Be Added on OS Level [wccftech.com]
AMD's Aerith SoC Brings Steady Performance, FSR Support To The Steam Deck [tomshardware.com]

Previously: Steam Deck is Valve's Switch-Like Portable PC: Starting at $399 this December [soylentnews.org]
AMD + Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design [soylentnews.org]
Valve's Upcoming Steam Deck Will be Based on Arch Linux--Not Debian [soylentnews.org]

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