Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours agoBecause those other consoles are not general purpose computers that have value without the original OS. A steam machine is just a compact desktop computer that happens to have a fancy version of steam on it. The fact that the OS is largely open source and hackable and the fact that valve contributes uncountable amounts of dev hours worth of code back to the FOSS community also helps.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
So if it’s PC architecture it gets a pass for being mediocre and for malfunctioning/failing at basic functions.
Got it.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Nah they dont get a pass (as you can clearly see from this article…) but people will be less critical than for the companies that have been established in the console hardware sector for multiple decades. People that are too consoomer brained to deal with a couple temporary bugs should just buy consoles and stay boring.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
This exact level of lying from PC-biased people (taking a few malfunctioning consoles and extrapolating to all) is exactly why a lot of people find it so easy to avoid PC gaming.
Nothing about consoles are boring compared to this Steam Machine shit show you’re all scrambling to defend.
That controller is pretty damned good, though.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
To me any device that cant load a custom operating system isnt even worth talking about, so yeah the steam machine just wins no matter what as long as it works as a computer. Open hardware rocks :D