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Its companies like this, purchasing the subsidized Deck, with no revenue circling back to Valve, that contributed to them needing to charge full price for their Machine & Frame, raise prices on the Deck.

Better off using Gamescope and MPV + shaders for game and video scaling/enhancements respectively on GNU/Linux. Both free and both do scaling earlier on in the pipeline rather than after the fact.

If you game on Windows though, it is one of the better solutions

Including myself, I haven't heard of anyone yet that _did_ get on the list. It's crazy that they more than sold out of what they have.

Just checked reddit though and some people are reporting they got on the queue, but no date is provided

Damn dude, KDE Plasma 6.4.3 came out nearly a year ago.

Will we need to wait another year for Bigscreen mode in 6.7 that came out recently?

That's a long time to wait for a Arch-based distro that gets near instantaneous releases btw.

Where would you say the Index has fallen behind, and what about the Frame is better? Isn't the lack of room tracking a big drawback of the Frame vs the Index?

I've been waiting for the latest QT version, and the transition to OVOS from Mycroft for voice


I'm sure either the workarounds will get to be trivial, or Valve will make it work sans Steam. It just needs time to cook

It's a good start. It only supports showing already downloaded games, not downloading other games at the moment.

I read their release notes though and if you make game purchases from Heroic they get some referral credits, so hopefully that helps them keep iterating.

The small size is probably the biggest factor since it fits well under the TV, as is the I/O including HDMI-CEC, dedicated radio for controllers, reference hardware for games to work well on, everything just works.

Desktop PC is where I do my customizations, 20 HDD bays & 6 SSD, etc, but I run Debian on there

Wooo! I am ready to purchase the Steam Machine whenever it comes out and install CachyOS on it. Can't easily install KDE Bigscreen + Waydroid TV on SteamOS. Lifetime software & security updates regardless. I expect with the AI bubble it will be at least $1k unfortunately, and won't be available in white at launch.

Then the Nvidia Shield + SSD + Game Native on the main floor where the Steam Machine will go, will replace the Raspberry Pi in the bedroom, the Raspberry Pi will become another MotionEyeOS security camera, and the main desktop will remain connected downstairs. It is the perfect middle ground between the Shield and Desktop PC. And the Steam Controller is the best controller for couch/bed gaming. Only thing that would make it better is a detachable keyboard on the bottom, but maybe there will be aftermarket Bluetooth ones.

My siblings and I have about 2000 games between us with family sharing and on other platforms (shout out to freegames@feddit.uk & SteamDB sale tracking for helping us get a lot of the way there), it will be more appealing to play multiplayer games there in the living room. And that's not including all of the legally available retro console games from the Internet Archive via IAGL for "research". Yes, it'll be more than a PS5 or Xbox One X 1 S 720 or whatever they call the latest generation, but no console could ever match this experience; we even have PS and Xbox "exclusives" for sale on Steam these days. What a time to be alive!

Absolutely. Can you imagine hearing the big picture mode starting every time you slide out the modern equivalent of this bad boy that was ahead of its time

Easiest way at the moment for the latest QT6 version would be install an Arch-based distro like PostmarketOS and install plasma-bigscreen-git

I have not, but that is a great idea given there are definitely more TV Optimizations in their dedicated Android TV app than switching the interface to TV on the native GNU/Linux app. I don't see any reason why it may not at least play content, but not sure about things like HDR.

I wish they just had one standard binary that adapts better.

Didn't know that. Go OpenSUSE!

I would love if it could display in-progress shows and play next right in the interface like Android TV, though it would require native app integration, perhaps there's also a way via Waydroid or Android Translation Layer (ATL) by hooking up to those existing APIs

From what I can tell Valve has no interest in it (yet), but hopefully one day. Recent updates have been from individuals who want to ensure it doesn't get left behind.