Steam Deck should be able to run Windows 11 at launch

Valve'due south Steam Deck will likely be compatible with Windows 11 at launch. While the handheld gaming device will ship with a custom version of Linux called SteamOS, at its core, the device is a reckoner. As a result, people can plug in peripherals and put Windows on i if they'd like. Valve hasn't focused on Windows 11, but the company expects that the device will piece of work with the new OS from Microsoft.

"There's work looking at TPM just now," said Valve Steam Deck designer Greg Coomer to PC Gamer. "We've focused and then much on Windows 10, so far, that we oasis't actually gotten that far into information technology. Our expectation is that we tin can encounter that."

Coomer's mention of TPM refers to the controversial Windows 11 minimum requirement. To run Windows 11, a PC has to take a TPM (Trusted Platform Module). Specifically, TPM ii.0 is required for the new Os. Valve is working with AMD to make sure that this is enabled on the Steam Deck.

"It's also a conversation that's going on with AMD," said Coomer. "To make sure that, at the BIOS level, we tin can adjust that. And then at that place's nothing to signal to the states all the same that at that place'll be any problems with Windows 11."

While the Steam Deck will likely be able to run Windows eleven, whether you'd want to run the new Microsoft operating system on it is some other question. Our Richard Devine explains why he thinks people shouldn't put Windows onto a Steam Deck.

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