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Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck

Legion Go S is cheaper without Windows; upcoming OS beta will allow for personal installs.

Almost exactly a year ago, we were publicly yearning for the day when more portable gaming PC makers could ditch Windows in favor of SteamOS (without having to resort to touchy unofficial workarounds). But the new PC gaming handheld will come in two distinct versions, one with the now-standard Windows 11 installation and another edition that's the first to sport the ( recently leaked) "Powered by SteamOS" branding. Both the Windows and SteamOS versions of the Legion Go S will weigh in at 1.61 lbs with an 8-inch 1200p 120 Hz LCD screen, up to 32GB of RAM, and either AMD's new Ryzen Z2 Go chipset or an older Z1 core.

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