{"id":17245,"date":"2026-03-06T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:07:27","slug":"matlab-on-the-steam-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2026\/03\/06\/matlab-on-the-steam-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB on the Steam Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/951521\">Toshi\u2019s<\/a> pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/matlab\/comments\/1rjf9dn\/matlab_on_the_steam_deck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MATLAB on the Steam Deck<\/a> from Reddit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Mindless_Egg7324\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindless_Egg7324<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent Reddit post showed something unexpected and fun: a user successfully installed <strong>MATLAB on a Steam Deck<\/strong>, and the community loved it\u2014nearly <strong>500 upvotes<\/strong> and an entire thread of enthusiastic reactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/MATLAB-on-the-Steam-Deck.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17248 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/MATLAB-on-the-Steam-Deck-1024x466.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Steam Deck runs <strong>SteamOS<\/strong>, which is based on Arch Linux. While MATLAB officially supports a set of validated Linux distributions\u2014including Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop\/Server\u2014Arch Linux and SteamOS aren\u2019t on the official support list.<\/p>\n<p>That makes this achievement even more interesting. It works\u2014not because it\u2019s a standard setup, but because someone decided to try it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously not practical, but the community had a lot of fun praising the audacity of the OP and cracking jokes on what they might do with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comments captured that feeling:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/Reddit-Comments-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17271 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/Reddit-Comments-1-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The excitement came from seeing MATLAB in a completely unexpected place\u2014a gaming handheld, running a non\u2011standard Linux distro.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great reminder of how inventive the community can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/MATLAB-on-the-Steam-Deck.jpeg\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Toshi\u2019s pick this week is MATLAB on the Steam Deck from Reddit by Mindless_Egg7324<br \/>\nA recent Reddit post showed something unexpected and fun: a user successfully installed MATLAB on a Steam Deck, and... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2026\/03\/06\/matlab-on-the-steam-deck\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":17248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions\/17287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}