Google has announced that some ChromeOS users will finally be able to start testing Steam. During the Google for Games Developer Summit, Google’s product director for games, Greg Hartell, [announced](https://youtu.be/1oc75GQFKvg?t=843) that “the Steam alpha just launched” for select Chromebooks.

It was a brief mention, but the software has been a long time coming — Google announced that it was working on Steam support for ChromeOS [in the beginning of 2020](https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21070284/chrome-os-steam-support-linux-games), and there hasn’t been much info since. There have been whispers that we’d see it soon, though, as recent reports indicated that companies are working on [gaming-focused Chromebooks](https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904183/gaming-chromebooks-rgb-nvidia-rtx-leaks).

Google talked about Steam for all of 13 seconds during its Google for Games Developer Summit keynote

Despite how long we’ve been waiting, the...