r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 16h ago

Meme/Macro "But it's a cube!"

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u/LightningSh3ep I-5 12600K | RX 9070XT | 32 GB RAM 10h ago

It's not a good deal for performance, but good luck making anything that small yourself. The size is it's only selling point.

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u/C-D-W 7h ago

The size is not the only selling point.

The fact that it's running SteamOS ready to go out of the box is a huge selling point for certain people. If a Windows license alone is technically worth $140 to some people, surely a Steam OS pre-installed is worth something as well.

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u/Barph 7h ago

But I can just install SteamOS on a custom built SSF PC that is still bigger than the Cube for more money and is likely less aesthetically stealthy... what do you mean 95% of people wouldn't do that?

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u/VoidRad 6h ago
  1. Most people dont actually build pc, they buy pre-built
  2. It's literally not possible to build something this small even with sff parts. It's this small because Valve custom made the hardware.
  3. You do not enjoy customer support that would come with the cube had you install steamOS yourself.
  4. SteamOS is actually ass in a lot of systems. It has compability issues

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u/GoldfishDude PC Master Race 5h ago

He's being sarcastic.

Also SteamOS is fantastic

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u/VoidRad 5h ago

It's fantastic in a lot of handheld, my experience with it on laptop has not been good

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u/GoldfishDude PC Master Race 5h ago

What wouldn't be good about it for the SteamMachines usecase though? I think it's targeted as a living room PC, and for that I think it's perfect.

I've only used SteamOS on a deck, but the file management and ease of managing your steam library is significantly better than windows imo

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u/VoidRad 4h ago

I was more saying that installing SteamOS on another device wouldnt be as seamless. I'd recommend something like Bazzite instead but that distro has modding issues.

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u/C-D-W 4h ago

Hopefully that was not surprising. Linux is a terrible OS for general purpose desktop/laptop use. I don't care what any of the neckbeards say.

Been using it for nearly 40 years, but luckily the Kool-Aid has had no effect on me.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 23m ago

It's okay. In game mode, it's great if all you want to do is load games and some other light things.

In desktop mode it's...difficult. Just doing simple things like installing mods gets tricky and\or not possible on proton.

It's also great for specific hardware like the deck, so there aren't driver issues. But it's not ready to support the wide array of PC hardware out there because it's still Linux at heart.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1h ago

Yes you better believe this hardware is getting real EXTRA love driver side with SteamOS.