Doing it yourself would mean visiting one of those build your own pc forums for help, and I think most people would rather kill themselves.
Doing it yourself would mean visiting one of those build your own pc forums for help, and I think most people would rather kill themselves.
A steam machine is literally just a PC with linux installed on it with a handful of presets. Go buy a 500 buck shit box from walmart and install cachy/bazzite img that has those presets out of the box on it. TA da done you have a steam machine. Its literally that simple.
You dont gotta build shit if you dont want to.
A lot of those old Dell Optiplexes are going to get dogshit performance without a GPU upgrade
That’s definitely a worse experience in any way besides price.
The steam machine promises a certain point of build quality, support and ease of setup your proposed solution will not.
It’s not the best bang for the buck, sure. But it’s not targeting people who have the know how or patience to either build and/or configure their own system.