This MASSIVE new update to Steam OS brings long-awaited new features. (Plus other Steam Deck news!)

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This week in Steam Deck news, a MASSIVE Steam Deck OS update hits the stable channel that brings huge changes to the desktop experience and how external storage devices are handled. Plus, did Valve just silently kill their research into Brain-Computer Interfaces? All this and more in this week’s Steam Deck news.

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My Office Rig:
* AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
* ASRock B550 TAICHI RAZER Edition
* MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
* G. SKILL DDR4 32GB x4 (128GB)
* HYTE Y60 Case

Emily’s Rig:
* AMD Ryzen 7 1800x
* MSI Pro Series X370 SLI PLUS
* NVIDIA GTX Titan X (Pascal) 12 GB
* GSkill Ripjaw V DDR4 8GB x4 (32 GB)
* Fractal Design Define R9 Case
* Manjaro GNOME
Living Room Gaming Rig:
* ASUS X99-E-10G WS
* Intel Core i7-6900K @ 3.2GHz
* NVidia Titan X (Pascal)
* DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x8 (64GB)

Backup Rig
* System76 Thelio Minor
* AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
* DDR4 16GB RAM
* Zotac Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

Home Server:
* ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3
* AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz
* Nvidia GTX 750 1GB
* DDR3 20 GB RAM

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00:00 – Intro
00:17 – NVIDIA Game Stream Update
01:48 – Thank you to Micro Center
03:12 – Holiday video and Steam Deck Giveaway
03:36 – What was the most surprising Steam Deck support this year
04:37 – What’s with Valve’s Brain-Computer Interface research?
05:20 – Stable Steam Deck OS release
05:51 – KDE Plasma gets overview mode
06:20 – Performance Updates
06:46 – Storage Updates
08:09 – Input Updates
08:43 – General Fixes
09:16 – Hotfixes
09:59 – Conclusion

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