Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its 'religious' refusal to 'build a more closed system'
www.pcgamer.com
The company says subsidizing hardware costs is ultimately worse for the consumer.
  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    But isn’t the SteamOS being open source make the computers bring pre-built kinda moot? Kind of like PopOS and system76?

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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      9 hours ago

      Yea steamos is open source. It’s just arch Linux basically. Hack you can just install your own Linux distro. If you want to.