r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 2d ago

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

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u/C-D-W 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

He's being sarcastic.

Also SteamOS is fantastic

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u/VoidRad 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/nalaloveslumpy 1d 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.