It will probably go down a bit again.
But can we talk about the 11% for English only? Holy moly.
All those YouTubers and stuff talking about switching to Linux must have really moved the needle after the W10 EoL.

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In 2007, PRS for Music took a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees were allegedly "listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'".

From the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music#Legal_cases [External Link]

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I don't think the Steam Machine will age that well spec-wise. Low-end RDNA3 basically means bad raytracing, bad upscaling and only 8GB VRAM. Whatever the next Xbox will be will completely outclass this thing. Not to mentioned they don't have to worry about anti-cheat.

The only thing that Valve can really offer here is lower price and earlier availability. If they manage to launch a year earlier, they could snatch away some potential marketshare and establish their niche in the console space. For the right price of course.
But if they wait too long now, I fear they might miss their chance here.

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"I believe it when I see it" kind of situation.
But I had "one large company will at least consider porting their anti-cheat to SteamOS/Linux" on my bingo card, so I'm at least intrigued. Fingers crossed.

But I wonder what the approach will be. They say Linux instead of just SteamOS, so it seems to be a more general solution instead of just focusing on Valve's hardware which is great. And they don't explicitly state kernel level for Linux either(but who knows).

Maybe they'll work together with Valve to provide some kernel module without giving full access to every company. Maybe some form of remote attestation that can later be integrated into other distros?

I'm not gonna get too excited until we actually see some results. But I'll be cautiously optimistic.
I'll gladly reinstall BF1 or Garden Warfare 2 if they go through with it. And maybe they'll bring the Apex Legends devs to adopt this anti-cheat as well.

This could be what many of us have been waiting for. If one company goes through with it, I imagine others will follow.
Let's hope for the best.

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When I thought bundle, I did not expect over 1000 games. Had to double check that I didn't scroll to a game recommendation section.

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They could've said that they're releasing a version with Bazzite. Or they could've actually reached out to the devs.

This is such an easy to avoid publicity situation, it's baffling. Bazzite is already a community developed distribution that most likely will support GPD hardware anyway.

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A 256GB OLED model would be nice to bridge the price gap a little bit. But it seems like Valve is focusing on 2 versions for their other hardware so it wouldn't be too surprising if it's gonna be the same for the Deck.
A shame for the budget option but hopefully they'll be able to keep the prices for the OLED ones consistent despite RAM insanity.

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Interesting stuff indeed. I'm very curious what the goals for the project end up being.

Running Quest games on the Frame? Reverse FEX (running ARM applications on x86)? Getting Android applications like YouTube or Netflix on Linux to make SteamOS more comparable to consoles?

So many potential use cases but only time will tell.

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Minimum Requirements: Intel Atom
Not sure my system can handle this :dizzy:

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The headset sounds neat but I'm much more interested in SteamOS for ARM. ARM GPUs are getting quite good and could open some very interesting possibilities. A tiny Steam Deck Mini. Or a regular sized one with a massive battery for insane battery life.

I think Valve could make something really special if they polish the drivers and software stack. Especially since AMD hasn't done significant improvements in low TDP scenarios yet. Always good to have a backup option.

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