The deck can barely make 4k 60hz and it struggles and stutters with games at that level. The official SteamOS won’t let you go to 4k 120hz, why would bazzite be different? It’s the hardware that’s limited, not the software.

Always check steamdb.info/sales. They’re always accurate and can help sift through the bundle’s mess.

Maybe, but it is not like I have free access to Europe. I was there by chance, it’s not like I live there. Steam historically has never sold hardware anywhere in the global south, specially in latam, at least Asia get some official sell channels.

They didn’t even accepted my appeal that I was on vacation. Just plain old “take your ban time and fuck off” from support.

Steam nukes accounts for region hopping. I got threatened once for buying on Europe and then on Latin America in too short a period of time and my account was on probation for a while. God forbid one travels internationally with a laptop.

Also, steam explicitly forbids shipping to forward freight services or PO boxes.

Not 100% accurate. The Steam Machine has the smallest form factor at that power capacity. It is reportedly the quietest piece of hardware for its size. And it also solved the wake with controller issue.

None of those things are available in any other hardware package. I game on a laptop connected to my living room TV. It is somewhere midway between a deck and the Steam Machine. I can hear the fans over the TV speakers on intensive games and the setup is awkward. I have to walk to the tv to startup the laptop and use wireless keyboard and mouse to handle the laptop until I get to desktop and only then the controller can summon big screen mode.

That’s not what’s happening to OP. It’s not that they can get into a raffle and wait their turn. As I’ve said elsewhere, 90% of Steam users can’t even get to the raffle as the deck is not sold to their region. Due to the hardware supply chain constraints. Fuck AI.

madthumbs lost a hard drive to a bad Red Hat installation over 20 years ago, and that made them really, really, really, really, really…really, really salty about Linux and FOSS. They like to talk in royal we, but the community of LinuxSUCKS is literally just them deleting and banning everyone who even tangentially disagrees with their deranged memes.

They are not very put together, but they do know how to hold a grudge eternally.

They work but are a pain to get going. They use a C++ third party library that requires a lot of dependencies. I once managed to create a prefix with the required shit installed. But the settings were a crapshot, some installers would work but some others would require changes or replacements to libraries. Then moving and managing the installation was too much manual labor. It was annoying so I dropped the project.

Unfortunately, it seems like for many, including me, it is borked. It just refuses to boot. Guess it’s just a matter of rolling back and wait a couple of weeks. Also tons of Bluetooth, graphics driver, monitors and Wifi issues for those that do manage to boot into the OS. It seems like it was rushed, this shouldn’t be on stable.

While desperately trying to stay relevant in a game genre that died 6 years ago. The golden goose is dead and they are still trying to crush golden eggs out of its dead carcass. They will never realize that the egg crushing machine they invented is the one responsible for it’s death.

It is an issue that lasted a week at most. It actually was such a non issue that it wasn’t even picked up as a bug report. Dude just had the absolute worst timing in the world. If he had waited a couple days or updated the systems again then, he wouldn’t have even noticed.

This is the worst case escenario being amplified and showcase as the typical OOB experience. There’s a reason benchmarks are such a niche in content creation, specially when the audience knows way more than the creator about the subject matter. When people like nexus exist, it is a risky business.

I get that he was going for his typical silly and goofy vibe, but he missed the mark. Shouldn’t have tried to showcase this results at all. It’s like saying to showcase the out of the box experience of a new car and getting hung up that the car ran out of fuel on the highway. Like, fueling is the bare minimum a car requires out of the dealership. Drivers check and install is the bare minimum every gaming computer requires on a fresh install. Not even windows can do gaming without installing proprietary drivers first. It is disingenuous. I love this bloke but he should stick to pouring extraneous liquids into oil pans in cars, he completely misread the benchmark audience.

This was said only about the Linux side. Apparently he did install the drivers manually on Windows, but not on Linux. (Windows doesn’t come with drivers for the 1080ti either and they have to be manually installed, e.g.) So it isn’t comparing oobe. One system was tinkered with and the other wasn’t.

Also, there’s a hypothesis that he downloaded bazzite images during a very brief period when they weren’t included in the legacy image yet. The drivers went out of support in December and there was a window of adjustment in the packaging. If he were to do it all again today, the results would be radically different. This was an exercise in futility and an utter waste of time.

You’re defending a guy that used nutella as engine oil for lulz. This is not serious at all.

Not really, went to the video comment section itself. And it seems like he took the time to install drivers on Windows. But did not do so on Linux. For half of the computers the GPU wasn’t even on. The whole thing is an exercise in futility and an utter waste of time. It does not compare out of the box experiences at all. It is disingenuous and poorly made. It is fun when he is burning headphones for entertainment, but these are as serious benchmarks as his fuel economy and car performance test. It is just an idiot spouting hot air. It means nothing.

It’s not a bug. If you install an NVIDIA dedicated bazzite image, this doesn’t happen. I suspect he just booted a hard drive with a fresh install of the wrong bazzite image without the NVIDIA drivers. User error a million percent, since bazzite doesn’t even let you download the installer until you tell the website exactly where are you installing it.

Did he actually install a (correct) bazzite image to each machine or did he just swap hard drives? Because that matters.

There’s half a dozen different versions of bazzite and bazzite installers. Each for different use cases. All that allows automated driver installs, but how you got there makes a difference. Swapping a hard drive to a new machine might make the NVIDIA drivers just not be there (because it was installed using an image for AMD GPUs). It will boot and the OS will work, but it will not use the graphics card appropriately.

Again, who cares? A sale for Valve is money into Linux gaming support. Still not a bad thing. I don’t care what corporations use in their daily work. It is me who wants to use Linux for gaming.

But I doubt it will happen, if a ton of companies want to buy hundreds of computers at a time, they won’t buy from Valve. They have their own vendors who sell in bulk at lower prizes. Corporations today acquire mostly laptops for day to day office work and mini PCs for service stations. High power workstations usually exceed the steam machine by a whole order of magnitude in required specs, and it is way too powerful just to shift spreadsheets around. The mid range independent creator space and mid range studios might see some use for it if it’s cheap. But I don’t see them causing scarcity of the machine itself. There are other just as cheap options purpose made for office work.

That wouldn’t be a bad thing. A lot of the trailer footage was dedicated to showing video editing and 3d modeling software (it’s just a PC, was one of the marketing lines). They want people to buy this machine. Who cares if they aren’t gamers. Valve also sells digital creative software on Steam.

No, they wouldn’t care. It’s a mild annoyance at worst. Nothing critical was lost. Maybe stop putting money into digital goods that have no tangible value and zero guarantee of property.

Which contradicts his position that cheating is a massive huge front to wage an endless war on. 13 people is a ban list, not a cry for rootkits on all clients. It stands to reason that if Linux was 0.01% and even if they were all cheating, it is not a massive problem. Is it tiny or is it massive? It can’t be both at the same time.