Steam for ChromeOS beta brings Chromebooks supported

Steam is now landing on ChromeOS. Before it was available on Android apps and the cloud. In beta form, it is now available with Chromebooks supports.

According to the information, Steam is now in beta and will just require that your Chromebook be on the Beta channel, specifically version 108.0.5359.24 and newer.

To use it, Google is lowering the hardware requirements and increasing the number of supported Chromebooks. There’s no support for AMD Ryzen 5000 C-Series and 12th Gen Intel, while the minimum CPU requirement has been lowered to Core i3 and Ryzen 3.

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That said, Google recommends “16GB RAM and an i5 / Ryzen 5 or higher for the best experience.” Check the new supported device list below.

There are several other notable updates to the Steam for Chromebooks beta:

  • Enable pointer lock by default (without the #exo-pointer-lock flag)
  • Improved handling switching between apps and full-screen
  • Improved keyboard handling; for example, the launcher key now works when the Steam client is focused
  • Improved window management support
  • Include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai fonts
  • Mouse cursor fixes
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