I don't need it but I want it. The GabeCube has basically the best of both worlds, the ease of use of consoles and the multi purpose usage of a PC. That's also why it can't be priced like a console I'm afraid. It has to be sold at least at cost (production+development) and can't be subsidized by game sales like a PS or Xbox. A console without games is pretty much useless, the Steam Machine without games is still a damn fine PC.
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If it was sold at a loss, businesses would scrape the whole supply and pave them for windows desktops.
That just wouldn't happen unless the steam machine costs less than $300. That's usually the top a corporation is willing to pay for bulk mini nucs, which is all that they want for clerk desks. Information workers get laptops with dell or HP embossed in the lid. Workstations for top design or video editing require way more juice than the Steam Machine can deliver, those are bought on order to professional boutiques, or they just buy Apple. Also, no administrator will sit on the steam shop page to buy one at a time, they like their bulk purchases and Valve can simple refuse anyone buying hundreds of machines. Then, corporations don't just want the PC, they want tech support, advanced guarantee schemes, etc. This usually come with a subscription per seat. All things Valve simply won't provide. It won't even register as an option for businesses.
This is an unfounded concern.
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I don't think I need it, but I'm super glad it's going to exist.
If it came with a native DVD reader and my PS4 suddenly died, I'd have some choices to make, however.
I'm 1000% certain you could attach a Blu-Ray drive via USB without internet telemetry, unlike Sony's policies ;)
Edit: fixed rogue "care of" character, will contact GrapheneOS team lol
The idea did occur to me a minute after I'd commented. After my PS4 gives up, I'll have choices to make.
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It's a feature
The best part of Linux is shitty games don't work on it.
I am honestly curious how do Sony and Microsoft react internally to Valve deciding to get their part of cake. Nintendo shouldn't care, their cake is a separate cupcake at the top anyway, but Sony and Microsoft are directly in the line of fire.
Don't be surprised when one or both of them starts doing some shady shit to sabotage things if Valve starts eating a larger market share.
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It makes no sense to me not allowing anticheat on unmotivated steamOS..
I mean, valve could even build something in, like secure mode, where you have a secure little linux root system for each anticheat game together with a online hash to check against this hole separated file system
Like when you start the game, steamOS boots in this separate root system
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Sounds like an Activision-Blizzard problem to me.
If they want to make their game incompatible with the best gaming systems I will simply not play it.
Its hard to even phrase this in a way that doesnt show that the game is clearly the problem and not linux
It can install windows. Just dualboot COD
How does one dual boot Call Of Duty?
Replace systemd with COD on wine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init
Do these for whatever windows equivalent is.
Hope this helps. π
Oh no! It only plays the CoD games that were good.
IMO: let windows have that, as these games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.
If someone is looking for an all-in-one device, it is a valid criticism to point out.
As it stands now SteamOS can't play the big flavour of the week multiplayer games. If that really matters to you and you don't have somewhere else to play them, a steam machine isn't for you.
I dual boot for this reason but default to Linux for everything that works there.
Sounds like the problem is with the game and its developers. There are still cheaters in games with kernel level anticheat. It's not a substitute for having moderation functions, staff, and reporting functionality. And at that point, you might as well go with something that isn't invasive rootkit spyware to safeguard your game.
Server-side anti-cheat is the best solution, and doesn't require any malware on the user's machine. It's harder though, and might need beefier servers, so...
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