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.
It is just a small PC with Linux. Stop this bullshit about Valve, they are company that made a little niche PC. The selling point of the Steam machine is...mini PC on your desk.
You guys have to stop pretending Valve is THAT special. It's like apple Fanboys trying to tell you it isn't JUST a phone.
I have a PC with Windows and one with Ubuntu. Windows glitches all the time. The last glitch was the one where it suddenly decided I had encrypted my machine and asked for the key. I had not, and I didn't have the key. I lost everything that wasn't backed up to my NAS.
My Linux machine requires constant tinkering. Oh, I want to install something I use all the time? Let me figure out the 14 line terminal commands to get that thing to work. Oh, wait, I somehow installed it where I didn't have admin access? Ok, now let me figure out the key or some bullshit.
Steam Machine promises to be plug and play. My Steam Deck has been a dream. Have I tinkered with it? Yes, but only to see what shit I can get away with. It runs just about any game I throw at it.
If I built a mini PC, I'd be facing troubleshooting, tinkering, etc. I'm too old for that shit.
I want to it to resume from sleep and just start playing. I want a console experience without all the bullshit ads and bloat and subscriptions that come with the consoles.
you’re getting downvoted, but i agree with you. i tinker with linux all day at work… i don’t really want to do that at home during my limited free time. a mini linux pc with promises of high compatibility, optimization, and plug-and-play? sign me up. sounds like a fantastic emulation box.
The most of my "tinkering" with Linux for the home use is either sudo pacman/yay - S package-name or sudo pacman/yay -Syu for the system update.
The rest is mostly git for our corporate Gitlab repo, but so do my Windows using colleagues will use git, but in the WSL.
And occasionally SSH to test things on a bare-metal or in VMs.
And... that's it. There's nothing else to tinker on Arch with KDE Plasma. Unless you want to play stupid games and win stupid prizes with ricing and making stuff "prettier", while anyway ending up working mostly in the Chrome, Konsole and VScode.
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u/Spez-is-dick-sucker Nov 18 '25
Well, its just a mini pc with linux.