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I'm on the reservation list for a Steam Machine and personally have no regrets, but I'm so happy these exist. I don't think it has to be a big competition, but between not appealing to a mass audience and have limited stock, the Steam Machine may have inadvertently ushered in a prebuilt Linux PC revolution, and that's a wonderful thing.
Can we finally say it? Is the year of the Linux desktop finally upon us??
nah, it's more like the year of the linux game console, if anything.
Neither the Steam Machine nor this Steamroller are consoles tho
Edit: grammar
something something quacks like a duck, swins like a duck, it's a duck. The steam machine does ~~swim like a duck~~ behave like what is commonly referres to as a game console. The steamroller is debatable tho.
The steam machine:
The only difference between the steam machine and other consoles is that it's not locked down
The Steam Machine ain't a typical PC either, at least that's not the intention on how it is to be used. It's kinda a PC-console hybrid.
I could however, plug the fucker into my TV and play games though.
*Neither
The year of the Linux desktop came and went honestly a while ago with kde 6 and proton hitting the scene.
Now it's the year of the Linux pre built.
I suspect Valve knew what they were doing, and while they probably care more about having prebuilts with Steam preinstalled and convenient to use, they included desktop mode in SteamOS and made sure the steam deck was open to tinkering.
Yup, I was thinking the same thing, the more people that can get on the Linux train, the better.
You’ve been able to make a low powered Linux machine whenever you wanted to. The Steam machine didn’t change anything.
Not everyone wants to build their own PC, and that's okay. Other use cases exist besides just what the hardcore PC crowd wants. There was a penguin-shaped gap in the prebuilt market, and now the Linux gap is closing, thankfully.
You didn’t need to build your own pc to install Linux on a prebuilt pc either 🤣
Not everyone wants to figure out an os install
Linux isn’t for people like that.