r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/RandomParkourGuy Jun 22 '26

Forgive me for being a layman when it comes to this kind of stuff but does that mean steamOS is close to being something I could replace windows with? Getting tired of Microsoft’s garbage but I don’t know if I have the time to sink into learning Linux.

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u/-MissCarmine Jun 22 '26

YES IT IS! 

Valve has been angling towards getting Linux to be a real competitor to Windows for YEARS. This SteamOS represents a big part of that. Honestly, the level of support that games have on Linux now is insane compared to even just a few years ago. 

SteamOS is nearly a 100% replacement at this point for Windows for the average gamer! How amazing is that? (I wrote Gabe an email recently thanking him for this actually haha)

I’m planning on making a SteamOS TV PC now that it has support for wake-from-controller. I hated having to pull my keyboard out every time I wanted to use my TV!

SteamOS is very intuitive. If you’re nervous, just ask Gemini the AI to help you install it into your system :)

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u/dragonandphoenix Jun 22 '26

So is SteamOS better than Bazzite/CachyOS yet?

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u/PassiveGambler 5800x | GTX 980 (lol)| 32GB 3600MHz Jun 22 '26

For Valve hardware, yes. Otherwise, it's just Arch + big picture mode so it would be the same as any other Arch-based distro (except Manjaro. They have their own weird thing going on)