Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026

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LorenDB · 4h ago

You should still be able to just enable a Linux developer terminal and then install Steam from a .deb file, no?

kotaKat · 2h ago

Not when ChromeOS becomes Android underneath, the eventual future of Chromebooks.

They need to kill off all the things they can't support in the transition while building features into Android they need to port over to continue to support for Chromebooks (like the Linux Terminal stuff).

NotPractical · 1h ago

There's no indication the ChromeOS-Android merger will kill support for graphical Linux apps? Android supports graphical Linux apps as well.

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Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026

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