I Want to Believe In the Steam Deck

But I’ve been burned by Valve before.

Eric Ravenscraft
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5 min readJul 16, 2021

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Valve

Today, Valve announced its upcoming portable gaming PC, the Steam Deck. Physically, it’s reminiscent of the Nintendo Switch, but inside it runs a new version of SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system Valve designed for its games. The idea is that gamers will be able to play their library anywhere.

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Eric Ravenscraft
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Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.