{"id":279889,"date":"2026-06-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:55:11","slug":"3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/\">3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 16:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Valve<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Steam Machine sales will greatly benefit the Linux OS.<\/li>\n<li>Steam OS is based on Arch Linux.<\/li>\n<li>The Steam Machine could deliver millions of new Linux users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Valve has finally given us the details for the Steam Machine. Hip, hip, huzzah! This new gaming console will play all your favorite Steam games and will feel more like a console.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, here are the pricing tiers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steam Machine 512 GB (no Steam Controller) &#8211; $1,049 (CA$1,509 \/ \u20ac1,039 \/ \u00a3879 \/ AU$1,609)<\/li>\n<li>Steam Machine 512 GB (with Steam Controller) &#8211; $1,128 (CA$1,628 \/ \u20ac1,108 \/ \u00a3938 \/ AU$1,728)<\/li>\n<li>Steam Machine 2 TB (no Steam Controller) &#8211; $1,349 (CA$1,919 \/ \u20ac1,359 \/ \u00a31,149 \/ AU$2,109)<\/li>\n<li>Steam Machine 2 TB (with Steam Controller) &#8211; $1,428 (CA$2,038 \/ \u20ac1,428 \/ \u00a31,208 \/ AU$2,228)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far as the specs are concerned, it looks something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU &#8211; AMD Zen 4 processor with 6 cores, 12 threads, and up to 4.8 GHz clock speed<\/li>\n<li>GPU &#8211; A semi-custom AMD RDNA3 graphics card with 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, 16GB DDR5 RAM<\/li>\n<li>Storage &#8211; up to 2TB NVMe SSD storage<\/li>\n<li>OS &#8211; SteamOS 3 operating system featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Steam Machine will ship to consumers starting June 29, and you can sign up for the list now on the official site. Do note, according to the Steam Machine page, &#8220;Join the list any time before June 25th at 10 a.m. PT. On that date, the list will be closed and randomized, and you will receive an email with your results shortly after.&#8221; Another thing to keep in mind is that you cannot reserve a Steam Machine unless you&#8217;ve made a Steam purchase prior to April 27, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0The best budget gaming laptops: Expert tested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t qualify, purchases will be randomized, and you can most likely count on the Steam Machine selling out quickly for this first round.<\/p>\n<h2>What does Linux have to do with this?<\/h2>\n<p>First and foremost, Steam OS (which powers the Steam Machine) is a customized Linux distribution based on Arch. But this isn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 ways the new Steam Machine could be a huge win for Linux https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/3-ways-the-new-steam-machine-could-be-a-huge-win-for-linux\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/dfce660d1b6a88186bdaf4b2f6cbf00ef02d16dc\/2026\/06\/23\/40c680e8-eba2-450d-8992-4a5e17f55bc3\/valve-steam-machine.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-279889","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\/279889"}],"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=279889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279892,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279889\/revisions\/279892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}