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Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'"
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How would that even work? It's literally a PC. It runs Linux. It's as open a system as you're going to get.
Not providing a terminal and desktop environment, for instance? Locking down the BIOS? What would it matter if it ran Linux if you could never leave Steam Big Picture?
You could still buy the game on other pcs so it wouldn't be exclusive to steamOS
It's supposed to eliminate the issues of Linux like unstable ABI/API, and fragmentation. -But like with Steamdeck, it's probably going to have people saying they do more tinkering than actual gaming. Real PC gamers use Windows.
You little have reporters thinking it is a console.
If this was oracle/microsoft there would be a publicly available environment variable you can just set yourself, but is technically illegal.