Go reread your last comment it makes no sense. But I’m personally not surprised you’re proving to be a loon

Mint just works out of the box, that’s why people recommend it.

I think there’s some misunderstanding here. They said “don’t immediately have sex” and “people don’t open up until around a year” as 2 separate statements. They weren’t necessarily saying to hold off on sex for a whole year.

You can make Linux look like Windows XP, 7, or 10. Here’s a guide

With all the effort it takes to figure that out on Windows (yes, even with a guide to follow), it literally would be easier to switch to Linux.

Inb4 needing to pick a distro. Here’s a simple flowchart:

• Do you game with brand new graphics cards and/or brand new games that need driver updates?
  • Do you want to tinker?
    • If yes, use CachyOS
    • If no, use Bazzite
• If you don’t buy graphics cards or high end games right after release, or don’t game at all
  • Use Linux Mint

As someone who enjoys drinking alcohol: there’s no beneficial or harmless amount of alcohol.

The haptic feedback isn’t as good as a physical stick though. It’s harder to know where the center is

Especially considering its not doing anything a PC can’t do (as far as I know).

It’s a PC. Why wouldn’t it do anything a PC can’t do.

That being said, it does have the connections to wake the machine and your TV by acticating a connected Steam Controller

I believe that’s due to whatever ad services the creators use

It’s based on IP, so if you use a VPN when you download episodes the commercials will be based on where your server is located

And Google is about to copy it worldwide

But, hey, my aging PC isn’t qualified to run Windows 11

That sounds like a good thing tbh

That was in the middle of memory prices going vertical, and I still got down voted to hell by people claiming that they were expecting $600-$800 tops…

I was getting really tired of the people that kept insisting that Valve would take a loss on the Steam Machine despite their repeated statements that they weren’t going to do so.

At least now they’ll shut up about it, though a lot of them are probably the ones getting mad about the actual release price. But that’s their fault for convincing themselves.

They still seem to operate under the assumption that they’re a small player.

In terms of hardware, they kinda still are. They’re not shipping out nearly as many units as the Switch, XBox, or Sony. Sure, some of that is simply their lower volumes, but they also don’t have monopolies via exclusives due to PC being an open ecosystem. After the Steam Deck launched, plenty of other manufacturers either updated or developed new handheld PCs to compete.

Also, scaling up manufacturing is expensive and risky. Ram manufacturers rapidly scaled up production about 10 years ago to address a shortage, and they all got burned with overstock (and accompanying low prices) when the shortage ended. That’s part of why they don’t want to scale up again to deal with the current ram shortage, because they know they’ll get burned again in a year or 2 if they do.

Plus, Valve has already stated they don’t want to own the entire PC hardware market, they want to expand the ecosystem and have multiple manufacturers competing for customers. If the Steam Machine is enough to pressure XBox, Sony, Nintendo, etc. to turn future generations of consoles into mere prebuilt PC’s they’d be happy with that

Eh, even PSN has games on sale or bundled with their subscription. And Steam sales aren’t as good as they used to be.

That’s not to say that games aren’t still cheaper on PC, just not as much as you’d thinj nowadays

or with DDR 4 instead?

Literally not possible without an almost complete redesign.

But sans SSD or RAM I think would have probably been $650

We can’t stream for example Netflix at 4k

Netflix hasn’t allowed 4k streaming via browser on any device in the past 10 years

Don’t forget the latency. I can barely tolerate streaming between my PC and Deck witg Sunlight/Moonlight.

I first got my Steam Deck 2-3 weeks after they started shipping. Unfortunately the “Y” button wasn’t triggering consistently. I sent it in to Valve for warranty repairs without issue, though it took 3-4 weeks to get back.

Also fun fact, in the time it took to get back I learned how to juggle because I was bored

Just my $0.02, but my DDR4 system with a 9070XT is doing alright. But I also don’t play competitive FPS, so ymmv