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Here's what the Steam Deck UI will look like on your desktop

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SteamOS 3 has leaked, following the release of dev kits.

Steam Deck UI on desktop
(Image credit: Valve | Pavel Djundik)

The Steam Deck interface will serve as a replacement for Steam Big Picture mode, but we've yet to see how it looks on a big screen. Well, now we've caught a glimpse of it, and it looks exactly like what you'd expect: the Steam Deck UI, on a big screen.

That's according to screenshots released by Pavel Djundik, creator of SteamDB. According to Djundik, SteamOS 3 has Steam Deck alternatives, basically). The shots posted by Djundik were taken in Windows, though. 

As Djundik points out, the UI is still a work-in-progress—this has its origins in a dev kit, after all—so you shouldn't take these shots as an indication of the final product. Still, it pretty much looks like what we've already seen on the Steam Deck itself, so it's probably not far from what we'll get come December.

Valve confirmed earlier this week that Steam Deck reservation situation, the vast majority of s probably won't get their hands on the handheld PC gaming device until well into 2022. 

Shaun Prescott
Shaun Prescott
Australian Editor

Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.