In April, Valve revealed it was overhauling Steam in a giant means — not only a contemporary coat of paint, but in addition unifying the codebase between its Desktop, Huge Image Mode and Steam Deck interfaces, including new options like a helpful cloud notepad and pinnable panels within the in-game overlay, revamping its screenshot supervisor and notifications tabs, and including {hardware} acceleration for Linux and Mac.
Whereas a lot of that has been obtainable in beta, at the moment’s the day it goes vast with a full secure launch. So in case your Steam is trying reasonably totally different, that’s why!
And reader, my gaming colleagues and I’ve been impressed by how a lot we like that coat of paint. Older adjustments to the Retailer and Library tabs however, Steam has seemed like an historical software for a really very long time, and now it’s… good! “I lastly like Steam,” my colleague Tom Warren confided.
Me, I’m nonetheless most excited for the cloud notepad, which I can affirm additionally now works on Steam Deck — although it doesn’t appear like you should utilize it as a translucent in-game overlay like you possibly can on desktop simply but. You’ll find it from inside a recreation by hitting your Steam button, then scrolling right down to Notes.
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