Its the form factor and power consumption.
I could build a steamos machine, but whats the point? I would still want my favorite flavor of linux with steam on in instead.
Remember everything in the cube is done for you, including the power supply inside. You can build similar, but this is a very compact single fan system.
Gabe cube also has cool hardware features you can’t get on a PC like background updates and HDMICEC.
Couldn’t you just do that with any PC? Are there some specific benefits?
Gabecube is very nice and open compared to a normal console, but if you’re coming from a pc, it’s the opposite in some ways. I personally would not want an os built around an online login.
The OS is not built around any login. It just boots straight into Steam by default. This is the experience consumers expect from a console. But of course you can just exit it, and since it’s Linux you can even disable it entirely.
Does not need an online login.
The OS requires an online login?
Require? I’m pretty sure you can get to desktop without, but how about big picture and gamescope? I’ve never seen steam ui without logging in.
You click “offline mode” if thats what you want.
I don’t know if the OS exactly requires an online login, but it basically boots into the Steam client, and that won’t do you much good without a Steam account.
Yeah this is incorrect the OS doesn’t require a steam login to work. You can bypass the steam login at boot if you want to and only need it to play steam games.
Or atomic… I love tinkering too much
You can have immuability without loosing tinkering possibilities. I do that on NixOS.
The more I learn the more I don’t want flatpaks on my machine so of course I am requiring something else than SteamOS or bazzite.
