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TL;DR
- Valve has released Steam OS for Arm following the release of its Arm-powered Steam Frame headset.
- Developers have subsequently ported this version of Steam OS to Android handhelds.
- We were able to run Steam OS on an AYN handheld, yielding a Steam Deck-like experience.
Ever wanted to run Steam games on your Android handheld? There’s no shortage of ways to do so, such as Android apps like GameNative and Winlator. We also installed the Rocknix Linux distribution on our Android handheld earlier this year, which includes an official Arm version of Steam. But what if you actually want to install the Steam Deck’s OS on your device? We now have some good news.
Valve recently released Steam OS for Arm devices. This isn’t a surprise as its newly launched Steam Frame VR headset runs on an Arm-based Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. It’s basically a VR headset powered by a phone’s internals.
