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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  With this machine you are stuck to a specific case. With a modular setup you can chose the case you want between thousand.

  Fractal design terra has a similar design and can fit a big GPU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what matters is that right now linux is more user friendly than windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux has not been anywhere near user friendly enough over the past 2 decades to be remotely usable by normal people. Not a chance.

  This hasn’t been true for at last a decade. Go ahead and install linux and windows and let us know which one is easier to get and install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Had valve not made its own linux based OS they would had to release this machine with windows preinstalled. Microsoft is valve competitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don’t really use windowns because they like it but because of the third parties applications that only run on windows, so yea you can point the finger at third parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform that doesn’t share much with steam or corporations like valve. If you understand the difference between lemmy and steam perhaps what i’m saying will make more sense to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it’s just a PC with steam OS pre-installed.

  And soldered parts that you cannot swap easily (not only hardware problems, proprietary firmwares can cause compatibility problems too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get confused, not all PCs are sold with windows preinstalled or require microsoft software to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, with Proton they’re one of the biggest contributors to Linux adoption in the past several years.

  They are also routing million of users through a proprietary third software launcher. Don’t forget that steam was built on and fueled the windows ecosystem for two decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you have time to play videogames on one of these you also have the time to build your own pc. You don’t have to anyway, you can pay someone to build it for you, the price would be about the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The steam deck is a portable device, soldering components and custom parts in devices that need to be small it’s more justifiable because it can save space. This box on the other hand is a SFF pc that has to be small only for marketing reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll also say that not everyone wants to build their own PC and would prefer the assurance that everything will just work out of the box, yet still don’t want a locked-down experience that you’d get with consoles. And that’s okay.

  some people don’t want to cook their launch and get mcdonald

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a custom small form factor PC with many of its components being user replaceable. The GPU and CPU are soldered, which is unfortunate, but it is still significantly more upgradable and repairable than any other console that has existed. So what the hell are you on about?

  Consoles are garbage, bringing a PC close to these is rowing in the wrong direction. Their presentation doesn’t say much about components being replaceable and hint at fix storage. GPU is one of the most important pieces in a machine that is supposed to be dedicated to videogames

  I think you’re just dumb and don’t know what you’re talking about.

  You are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform that doesn’t share peanuts with steam or for profit companies like valve, i may be dump but i encourage you to learn more about open source software/hardware and decentralized platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  consoles are PCs running proprietary software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that valve main product is a proprietary third party software launcher that doesn’t share much with what linux stand for. With this hardware to me it looks like they are trying to make a console out of a pc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For those of us who care for that sort of thing,

  what sort of thing? a SFF pc? you can build one quite easily of pay someone to build it for you, it’s cheaper and more reliable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people so excited about what looks like custom proprietary hardware designed to have a limited lifespawn and that will end up in a landfill in less than a decade?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t wait for this, get or build a normal pc that you can change parts anytime you want, you will not regret it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You call pretty interesting hardware what looks like non-replaceable parts?