This is the whole point of Steam OS. It’s not embarrassing for Valve. The only reason this doesn’t already happen with Play Station and Xbox is because its illegal.
Every SteamOS install is a finger in the eye of Sony and Microslop and I’m here for it.
The only reason this doesn’t already happen with Play Station and Xbox is because its illegal.
And because the operating system is proprietary. They can’t build a Playstation or Xbox without having the operating system, and their services builtin to play those games. So its not just illegal, it is technically “impossible” to have a functional alternative to their consoles.
Good, keep up the competition. Make it popular to build and sell “Steam Boxes” or “Steam Machines”. The more the merrier.
Valve wins either way.
And so do linux users
Author couldn’t even be bothered to post a link to the product.
https://www.metapcs.com/products/steamroller
It’s not officially licensed so expect it to disappear.
For that price you can get a way better prebuilt.
16gb of ram xD
I mean they couldn’t even be bothered to look up what an actual gamer rig looks like before making these shitty ads
So it’s $250 more for a PC with similar gaming performance… How is this better? At least put a 9060 16GB in there…
Even at the current crazy prices, this seems pretty expensive. For this kind of money I’d expect at least a 9060XT.
i haven’t built a pc since say 2004 ish. Started in the 90’s. The changed to sw engineering. Don’t think i would know what’s what these days. My legion go works well with factorio and rimworld but meh at later game satisfactory. sigh.
It’s still $999 for a 7500x3d+5060 at microcenter. Why get “steam machine at home” when you can just get an atx build that runs circles around it all.
If you have some patience it’s very possible to find a deal out there just by looking at slickdeals every now and then until something pops up, but the best time to buy would have been before November '25… but there are always deals from time to time if you are patient and keep looking.
We don’t want Nvidia though.
so sell the 5060 for the ~330 it sells for on ebay, and buy a 9070xt for 550 from walmart or 630 from mc.
It’s not that hard to solve for stuff like that.
The kind of person interested in buying a prebuild doesn’t want to replace hardware or reinstall an OS.
Because most people don’t build their own computers. I agree with you, they should, but it’s not up to us.
Also a lot of people like the form factor. Again I don’t care but that’s what they want.
I totally understand man, but i’m talking about a prebuilt for $999. https://www.microcenter.com/product/699677/powerspec-g528-gaming-pc
I get the form factor, and I don’t think the price is too nuts for that given the overall market for the actual machine. This rando knockoff however that got a ton of free press is just a shitty system overall.
