Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Is Fremont the Rebirth Of Valve's Steam Machines" video.

  1. Tbh, this really shouldn't be a space that Valve needs to enter. Ryzen APUs crammed into ultra-SFFPCs have been delivering good 1080p gaming since the 3400G, and Linux works on them out of the box. I personally just run elementaryOS, but if I cared about having a "Steam-like experience" beyond auto-launching Big Picture, that's what Chimera and Bazzite are for. The fact that Minisforum, ASRock and Geekom haven't been selling their units configured this way is just ridiculous and them leaving money on the table.
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  2. There are so many videos showing you how to set up Bazzite or ChimeraOS on the current batch of 780M / 890M mini-PCs. I don't understand how the companies that make them don't just ship them that way.
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  3.  @cameronbosch1213  Some of them will sell you a barebones unit without an SSD, so I don't think it's that so much as not investing in an employee who knows desktop Linux.
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  4. Looks like HX 370 mini-PCs are on the market now, though they're about double the price point of a high-end console.
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