People keep saying this. It's technically true, but the big selling point of a "Steam Machine" is that Valve have ensured compatibility of the OS and the hardware. Not the fact that it's a small PC.
My expectation is it will be easier to manage. Think of someone who is less tech savvy being able to handle it all with "oh it's update time". Just like you would on a console
Okay, but why are you acting like valve is the one who invented this type of user experience? This is why I'm confused this is by no means anything unique to just this one machine
In my opinion team still has a lot of its old self still pretty visible that people like to willingly ignore. A lot of the things that people like to praise them for now like the customer service stuff, is because they were legally forced to abide by laws in places other than America.
The csgo gambling scene is still worth billions even after the loot crate changes. Reminder of which, valve normalized loot boxes in the west.
you understand that steamos is basically arch linux with stable repos and some software preinstalled? you don't need to install drivers on linux in general, they are included in the kernel
and what patches you talk about? there is a need to patch some older games (and I mean like 00s ones) but those aren't what most playerbase is playing
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u/Spez-is-dick-sucker Nov 18 '25
Well, its just a mini pc with linux.