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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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[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They should go for it.

The Commodore 64 was the highest selling computer model of all time, until around 2020, because of it's game library.

SteamOS probably has the best easily accessible game library of all time.

The Commodore 64 taught us that games will carry a personal computer to massive popularity and sales, even if the computer has trade-offs.

I agree with others who have commented that there's better versions of Linux for the average user.

But I don't think it matters.

A Steam machine with a cheap keyboard and mouse would be hugely popular this Fall, and would make it's users fall in love with Linux, in spite of issues - because we all love video games.

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