Steam Hardware
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The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah, I’ll never be able to afford any of that stuff, no point me even looking at it sadly.

    It’s for middle class people who have piles of cash to burn :-(

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been saying for years that VR can get off my lawn until I can buy Linux native hardware. I guess I’m interested in VR, now.

    “I may never financially recover from this.”

    is well said.

    I need to buy all of these.

  • Zink@programming.devEnglish
    362·
    1 day ago

    When I look at this announcement, the hardware is very exciting, for sure. But it is Valve’s dedication to Linux that really has me smiling. I don’t see three hardware devices to buy. I see two big proclamations for which the hardware is the message:

    1. SteamOS on desktop! It seemed inevitable but it’s still great to see.

    2. STEAM VR USING LINUX AS ITS TARGET PLATFORM?!?!?

    I will grant that it’s very possible I buy all three pieces of the hardware, even though I like building my own PCs. I will also grant that Valve’s support for linux probably would not be what it is without the enshittification of Microsoft’s ecosystem. But in this world I’m gonna go ahead and accept the imperfect good news.

  • Stop Forgetting It@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    23 hours ago

    All I got to say is that the new Steam controller better link to devices as a controller and not a mouse. The current steam controller shows up as a mouse when I connect it to mobile devices via Bluetooth, so I can’t use it with games that have controller integration build in to the game, since they think I am connecting a Bluetooth mouse. The only reason I don’t use my current steam controller as my main controller is because of the mouse issue.

  • phx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve been keeping some money set aside for a newer VR system, specifically one that supports wireless connection to PC. Was considering one of the newer HTC models but Linux support seemed… spotty. In glad I waited and have already wishlisted the Frame

  • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    The VR looks interesting. I had bought the HP reverb G2, but Microsoft pulled the plug on windows mixed reality, and I’ve since moved to Linux, so this might be a good replacement.

  • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    If Valve makes ARM Linux work properly as a gaming/desktop OS, I will uhh hmm.

    I will buy this thing.

    I wonder if they’re still using Arch for the basis of this. Its ARM version is kinda not so great, although not terrible either.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        That was my thought too, as far as I understand ARM is superior to x86 in many aspects, but because of compatibility it never took over the desktop market, this could be the beginning of an amazing transformation.

        • merdaverse@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          Exactly. The performance to price ratio is much better for ARM. The only barrier to adoption is compatibility, but they seem to have a decent emulation layer for that.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.

    But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.