Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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I wish it had a more defined upgrade path, I really do. I was actually going to get a Framework 16 until their controversy came to light. For those of us who care for that sort of thing, the only game in town left the building.
So my answer is that this device checks all my boxes except for that. It's built with Linux in mind, it's small, it's not a laptop, it has quality assurance and I don't have to build it myself, and it can run all my favorite games. And it is still repairable, just not upgradable. But I'm going to get as much life as I can get out of it, and I'm not going to just throw it out or sell it when the next Steam Machine comes around. I'll make do with what I have until it breaks or becomes unusable.
what sort of thing? a SFF pc? you can build one quite easily of pay someone to build it for you, it's cheaper and more reliable
I didn't want to get too specific, but by "that sort of thing" I meant not supporting companies who financially contribute to certain political organizations and individuals. That's a personal decision and I didn't want to ruffle any feathers on an unrelated thread.
I'll also say that not everyone wants to build their own PC and would prefer the assurance that everything will just work out of the box, yet still don't want a locked-down experience that you'd get with consoles. And that's okay.
Steam Deck was one-of-a-kind for having a console-like pricing model, while having a high ifixit repairability score, and because it's not a custom build, there's a tutorial out there for most repairs or other problems you'll encounter. So that's pretty reliable in my book.
some people don't want to cook their launch and get mcdonald