Valve shared some welcome news about running SteamOS on devices beyond the Steam Deck or the officially licensed Legion Go S model.

SteamOS was always supposed to be bigger than Valve’s own Steam Deck, and 2025 is the year it finally expands. Not only will Lenovo ship the first third-party SteamOS handheld this May, Valve has now revealed it will let you install a working copy of SteamOS on other handhelds even sooner than that.

Valve says it hopes this soon-to-be-more-widely-available beta version will "improve the experience on other handhelds," with the company continuing work to extend SteamOS support

The SteamOS Legion Go S model is the most interesting of the two since it's the first non-Steam Deck handheld that utilizes Valve’s operating system. If you’ve read any of our handheld reviews, then you know Windows 11 has been a major sore spot for these systems since Microsoft’s OS doesn’t work well on these systems.

SteamOS is slowly becoming an alternative to Windows for handheld gaming devices. After launching the Steam Deck with SteamOS, its own operating system,

Lenovo has announced two new iterations on the Legion Go, a PC gaming handheld it released in October 2023. The Legion Go 2 will be a beefier—and likely pricier—version of Len

Lenovo has finally announced a new line of Legion Go handheld PCs, with one that will come installed with SteamOS out of the box. The new model is called the Legion Go S, and it's the world's first handheld PC from a third-party manufacturer using Valve's operating system.

The Legion Go S with SteamOS will launch in May for $499.99, bringing hardware specs that put it on par — and, in some cases, well above — the Asus ROG Ally and other powerful

Lenovo announced the Lenovo Legion Go S, a handheld gaming device with an 8-inch screen. There will be two main models, one running on Windows and the other on SteamOS. Both have an 8-inch screen that offers a resolution of WUXGA,