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Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year (discuss.tchncs.de)

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If Valve really wanted to make a splash, they could release a desktop version of SteamOS in October, right when support for Windows 10 ends. For additional damage, they could bundle in Half-Life 3. Just imagine the coverage this would get.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Approachability. Valve is a recognizable name and the Steam Deck is notoriously usable in the sea of Linux uncertainty.

It's very usable for a handheld gaming platform. It really isn't any better for a desktop platform. The thing that makes it so usable is that you boot it and it boots into Steam Big Picture, and you don't see the desktop. Most users never will. Is that how people are going to want their desktop to work though? Probably not. They probably don't want to only use Steam. They probably want to use other applications too.