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Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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My initial thought is definitely yes for the Steam Machine, and maybe yes for the Steam Frame.

All devices are Valve made hardware running steamOS, so I would think a lot of the discussions/content would apply to Steam Deck. This also isn't a super busy community, so I wouldn't be that worried about Steam Deck specific content getting buried.

The Steam Frame is a bit more iffy than the Steam Machine though, there's a lot of experience differences between the Deck/Machine and a VR device, so there will be larger differences. Also the Frame has ARM hardware and has to use an additional x86 to ARM compatibility layer for games running on it, so we'll probably see some unique compatibility bugs for it.

Overall though I just want to hear everyone else's opinions on it.

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[โ€“] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You've convinced me! Instead of a general gaming community where people post about games on more then one platform we should have separate communities for the Sega Saturn, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, Nintendo, SuperNintendo, GameBoy, GameboyColor, NintendoDS...

Or maybe the name not being perfect is ok since it was started before other stem devices existed? Pretty sure the display name can be changed even if the community address doesn't.

[โ€“] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Instead

I did not use this word