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SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop

([Valve] 5 Hours Ago SteamOS 3.9 Preview)


In time for the weekend Linux gamers, Valve last night released the first preview of SteamOS 3.9 for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and other devices. This early preview comes with some exciting software updates.

SteamOS 3.9 Preview updates its Arch Linux package base. Among the notable software upgrades is the SteamOS Desktop Mode now running on KDE Plasma 6.7.3 compared to the dated Plasma 6.4.3 version it had been using. In turn this fixes many bugs and other improvements for the desktop experience under SteamOS.

SteamOS 3.9 Preview is also running on the Linux 7.2 stable kernel for newer hardware support, better performance, and other improvements over the existing Linux 6.16 LTS usage.

The SteamOS 3.9 Preview also switches over to WPA_Supplicant for better WiFi handling, preliminary support for system hibernation but not yet exposed via the Game Mode UI, improved support for running SteamOS as a guest VM with VirtIO graphics acceleration, and other improvements.

More details on the SteamOS 3.9 Preview release via [1]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/689767056035283412


"I have examined Bogota," he said, "and the case is clearer to me.
I think very probably he might be cured."
"That is what I have always hoped," said old Yacob.
"His brain is affected," said the blind doctor.
The elders murmured assent.
"Now, what affects it?"
"Ah!" said old Yacob.
"This," said the doctor, answering his own question. "Those queer
things that are called the eyes, and which exist to make an agreeable soft
depression in the face, are diseased, in the case of Bogota, in such a way
as to affect his brain. They are greatly distended, he has eyelashes, and
his eyelids move, and consequently his brain is in a state of constant
irritation and distraction."
"Yes?" said old Yacob. "Yes?"
"And I think I may say with reasonable certainty that, in order
to cure him completely, all that we need do is a simple and easy surgical
operation -- namely, to remove those irritant bodies."
"And then he will be sane?"
"Then he will be perfectly sane, and a quite admirable citizen."
"Thank heaven for science!" said old Yacob.
-- H. G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind"