{"id":225590,"date":"2026-03-20T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:50:08","slug":"steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview brings initial Steam Machine support, and improvements for many handhelds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/\">SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview brings initial Steam Machine support, and improvements for many handhelds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 05:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview is another big upgrade for Valve&#8217;s Linux distribution, with lots of enhancements to hardware support across the board for handhelds. This also includes initial support for the Steam Machine, not that any of us actually has one yet but Valve are clearly working towards getting everything ready for it.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also see an updated Arch Linux system base, with an improved graphics driver, improvements to VRR and lots more. This is in the Preview channel available via Settings  System  System Update Channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Here&#8217;s everything that&#8217;s included in it (changelog):<\/p>\n<p>Known Issue: Users not currently opted into Preview channel updates may be automatically returned to the Beta channel when attempting to opt-in. This can be worked around by enabling &#8220;Advanced Update Channels&#8221; in developer settings, and will be fixed in an upcoming Steam Client update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Updated Arch system base<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Updated graphics driver with performance and stability fixes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fix a case where per-app performance settings would intermittently fail to apply when launching a game<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improved support for the screencasts in Game Mode (e.g. OBS\/Discord)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fixed dropdown menus not appearing in some games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improved VRR frame pacing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fixed FSR badge remaining off in the performance overlay, even if it was actually active<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improved support for games that attempt to open PDF files in external viewers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fixed an issue affecting certain titles (such as &#8220;SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide&#8221;) where the game window could have an incorrect position<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fixed closing certain titles (such as &#8220;STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor\u2122&#8221;) and Starfield resulting in a session crash<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Improved support for certain USB racing wheels and USB devices that boot in a non-standard mode<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Steam Deck controller firmware updates now display update progress on the splash screen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fixes issue on specific Steam Deck&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview brings initial Steam Machine support, and improvements for many handhelds https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steamos-3-8-0-preview-brings-initial-steam-machine-support-and-improvements-for-many-handhelds\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/steamos%20plain%202025.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-225590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225592,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225590\/revisions\/225592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}