You could slap Windows on your Steam Deck, but you'd be missing an awesome, performance-boosting feature that just got built right in.
Valve's Steam Deck begins shipping out to early adopters at the end of February. And some of you lucky Deck owners might feel tempted to switch over to Windows for 100% game compatibility. But Valve has an awesome secret weapon to keep you on Deck's default OS. The Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3.0 now has AMD FSR built in. Here's why that's a big deal.
That's because AMD's tech intelligently upscales the in-game imagery to your display's native resolution, making it look sharper while dramatically increasing framerate.For me, the true appeal of tapping into AMD FSR on the Steam Deck — and by extension desktop Linux— is that it works on just about every single game, even if the developer hasn't built the game with official AMD FSR support.