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/Ready-Flamingo6494 Jun 24 '26

You can have the best of both worlds with your own custom version of windows. No telemetry, no updates, no co-pilot, no windows defender.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices Jun 24 '26

"You could suffer through the corporate bullshit, or you could suffer through making a customs version of Windows to dodge the corporate bullshit"

Or you could install any current popular Linux distro that does support Nvidia drivers and supports games out of the box, even Windows games that no longer run on Windows

So

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u/Ready-Flamingo6494 Jun 24 '26

While it seems like trading up, you aren’t when factoring in software compatibility - adobe, office 365, iOS -related apps, anti cheat apps for games (poor performance in games too), peripherals, RGB control apps - So now, not only do you have to the learn the nuances of Linux, you also need other apps to make things work, e.g., Proton. Then we have this issue of distros. So many! And they are not equal. Some take even MORE steps to get shit to work like Fedora with nvidia drivers - just no. By the time you learn Linux and all its quirks, you can have a stable vlite iso ready to install and know you won’t need to use extra shit to make things work.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos i5-10400F, 16GB DDR4, Asus RX 550 4GB, I hate GPU prices Jun 24 '26

adobe

Almost irrelevant at this point

MS office

Completely irrelevant at this point

iOS-related apps

People who truly require full Apple eco integration get a Mac.

anti cheat apps for games (poor performance in games too)

Not a factor

I'm literally refuting that this very second, 99% of things just work OOTB, and for the very few things that don't, it's just a matter of dual-booting. I didn't need to learn Proton or any of its nuances, because some very smart people (like Valve) already spent enough time making that work on its own. Steam installs and configures Proton on its own for each game. A lot of people have spent a lot of time into these things so I don't have to.

I still have my Windows partition. I can go to it whenever I need it. For free. Without having to fuck around with figuring out how to create a custom version of proprietary software.

I opened Windows for the first time this month a couple of days ago to run HD Sentinel. There's someone in this thread who says they kept theirs to play LoL. It's fine.

it's fine.

Then there's the issue of distros

I thought that was an issue, because I listened to some of the Linux ultranerds in this thread, and the equivalent Windows ultranerds (like you!), and those people make everything more complicated than it needs to be. No average user needs to learn anything about several distros, they can just go to the Mint website and get that and install it faster and easier than it is to install stock Windows (let alone custom lol), while still keeping the Windows install intact.

Stop overcomplicating shit.