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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts’ opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/2330473

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

You're right, that's why there's countless mature Android distributions to choose from, and they're all free. Oh wait.

I don't really know much about AOSP, but isn't the fact that it doesn't contain any of the proprietary Google stuff mean that the "sideloading" restrictions likely will not apply? How could it?

[–] misk@piefed.social -5 points 1 week ago (11 children)

So you don’t really know the story of Android, much of it very recent, but you’re going to argue that Valve is not following the same path. What a waste of time.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Steam is a game distribution store, Steam machine and deck are console oriented machines.

Linux as a whole has dominance in the server world, valve is touching the gaming side of desktop Linux. Desktop Linux is tiny compared to Windows. You are comparing it to a phone operating system in a world where they were two-ish, to a potential distro in a world where there are 12 or more, several of those widely used in servers.

Be angry if you want but it's not the same.

[–] misk@piefed.social -5 points 1 week ago

You did not address anything I’ve said really. I’m going to go with block because I value my time too much.

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