Steam Deck Performance is Very Good News for Chromebooks

Join our Patreon community for exclusive extras, an ad-free website experience, and more: https://www.patreon.com/chromeunboxed ・・・・・・・ In the event that you didn't already know it, Steam games are coming to a Chromebook near you. After following the story for quite some time, we finally got official news from Google back in March that a very limited, very early roll-out of Steam on ChromeOS was actually happening. We tested it all out on video not long after, and now we're in the part of the development process where we're just waiting for the Beta to arrive along with wider Chromebook support. As we wait, there are things we can do in the meantime that can help us imagine what running Steam games on a Chromebook will look like once this entire effort is closer to the finish line. With the Steam container on Chromebooks running Arch Linux and leveraging Valve's amazing Proton compatibility layer (this is what lets Steam run Windows games on Linux machines), it becomes pretty easy to establish a baseline of expectations with something like the Steam Deck: Valve's new handheld gaming console. Read more: https://chromeunboxed.com/steam-deck-gaming-performance-chromebooks-borealis/ Join our newsletter: http://bit.ly/2WjCDm7 ・・・・・・・ Fueled by Fresh Roasted Coffee (15% off with code CHROMEUNBOXED): https://chromeunboxed.com/coffee Shop Chromebooks on CHROME SHOP: https://chrmshop.com/ Subscribe to the channel: http://bit.ly/2xFuj6L Follow us: