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Breaking down what you can expect from the Steam Deck and its not-Windows software. Valve's much rumored handheld, the Steam Deck, is now official, sending gamers into a frenzy. With good reason, too, after all, Steam isn't in the habit of selling watered-down games like you might find on the Nintendo Switch. The Steam Deck is very much a handheld PC, in the vein of something like the GPD Win devices. But it doesn't run Windows 10 (or Windows 11). At least, not out of the box. You're getting SteamOS and Proton, terms which some may be familiar with, but to others it might be foreign. This doesn't run Windows, but you can run Window game on it. Confused? That's what we're here for. What is Steam OS and Proton? The Steam Deck isn't Valve's first attempt at a piece of gaming hardware. Remember Steam Machines? No, probably not. In any case, the Steam Machine was Valve's first attempt at a games console, and ran its own software, SteamOS. But there was nothing magical about the har... ...