I am really struggling to understand who this might be for, and I agree with the other comments - where would you get the SD Cards from? Noone is selling SD Cards pre-loaded with games.
I feel like the only way this could really work is if some company put it on a pre-built or Mini PC and bundled the 'console' with pre-loaded games. Because let's be real, the kind of person that has trouble navigating the Steam UI wouldn't typically install their own operating system on something that came with say, Windows. But then you'd still have the issue of only being able to play the games that shipped with the 'console' - it becomes an extremely restricted system, just like the OG console it's meant to imitate. You get none of the advantages of PC such as modding and access to a huge library of games all the way to the DOS era. And at this point, why even bother with something like this. Also, the target audience for this is just far more likely to buy something like, a Switch.
But on the PC side, I cannot see how this 'cartridge based system' is ever going to succeed when all games are digital only. And for this, I feel like Steam Gaming mode does a pretty good job of consolifying the experience, a simple, easy to use interface for launching your games

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So we went from 8GB VRAM in 2023...to 8GB VRAM in 2025. Amazing. At a time where game consume more and more VRAM, I find it baffling that Framework is not listening to their customers and bolstering planned obsolescence on their products. 8GB GPU in 2025 is basically guaranteed E e-waste in the near future.

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OMG I just love this distro so much! I installed in on my Ally X and was so impressed that all of my other devices (desktop, Nvidia Laptop, Intel Laptop) are all running Bazzite right now. It works extremely well. Forget about SteamOS, this is truly the next generation of Linux gaming:wub:

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I think the bigger question is, why does this keep happening? :wub: Someone at Valve needs to get in touch with the devs and figure out how they manage to keep breaking this game every time on Linux, so it can be avoided in the future. I don't think it's sustainable that Valve has to fix it every time again when it breaks.

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Are you using Linux Mint? What are your current thoughts on it?

In 2019 when I started with Linux, Mint was my first choice because of its alleged beginner-friendliness. However, I had so many issues with its usability (especially the Cinnamon DE) and eventually I stopped using it and went back to Windows. Now I tried it again a few days ago, a friend of mine is making a home server and I suggested Mint (this time the xfce edition). Unfortunately there's still a lot of issues, like Timeshift automatically making snapshots without even being configured, and no way to view which apps are installed in the application manager. Eventually we both gave up and installed Kubuntu instead which works much better. It's sad to see that it has not really improved. I consider Kubuntu a far more useable distro.

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Great, 100% chance to be either banned or censored in Germany:huh::sick:

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This is HUGE! Previously you had to right-click on the artworks to change them, a function that was really hard to find (I stumbled upon it by accident) and it was even harder to change the 'Wide Cover' (also known as horizontal grid by Steamgriddb)- you basically had to go to a specific Steam folder and paste your image file in there, with a specific name such as [APPID].png. A total nightmare as you can imagine. I'm glad to see this get much easier.

I'm curious though - would the customized game artwork be the same across every device, or do you still have to do it individually on each of them?

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I hope this isn't intended to replace MangoHud… I would be very disappointed if they did that :sick:

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That's gotta be a bad joke?? 5050 (with anemic 8 GB VRAM too:huh:)and 16GB RAM for over 2000$? What the heck are these guys smoking.

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Next step - official Linux support directly from the developer??

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