Once that's done you can enable the final ultimate Steam trick to turn your old Mac into a full-fledged gaming console: Big Picture Mode (BPM). In your Steam client app go to the View menu, and ...

This is now, and now, the new in-home streaming feature Valve recently introduced in its blockbuster Steam gaming platform can turn any laptop into a full-fledged gaming machine—even older ...

Boot directly into Steam: I wanted my mini PC to act like a regular console would, booting into a menu letting you select a ...

Valve envisioned Steam Machines and SteamOS—a proprietary Linux fork intertwined with Steam’s Big Picture mode—during the Windows 8 era, while Microsoft was trying to turn PCs into tablets ...

The GeekDeck is a mini PC pretending to be a Steam Deck, using SteamOS for gaming. Easy to turn any device into a "Steam Deck ...

Dual-booters: You can turn your physical Windows partition into a virtual machine that can be run from Linux. Tech site oopsilon runs through the process which requires Windows XP, Linux ...

I turned my Alpha into a Steam Machine. To recap, there are two things that separate a Steam Machine from your average gaming PC: 1.) Valve’s SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system that you use ...

The good: Partially upgradeable hardware, sleek design, easy way to bring Steam into the living room The bad: Most games need to be streamed from a PC, controller is imperfect, PC games don’t ...

To run Batocera, you need a PC with a 64-bit processor. Most machines that can run Windows 10 or 11 should work fine, but for higher-end emulators like PS2, PS3, or Switch, a gaming PC with a ...

On September 23rd, 2013, Valve announced SteamOS: A Linux-based operating system just for PC gaming. Two days later, it hit us with another surprise: Steam Machines, a line of pre-built PCs from ...

Steam Link is capable of sending a magic packet, meaning as long as you have WoL enabled in Windows, you can boot your machine and start playing games right from your phone. The only other hurdle ...