If Linus goes Linux as their main system and its reflected in their channel topics, then after years I might go back to watching his Tech Tips.
Any new computer for $1000 bucks is going to have middling performance these days, I don’t think Linus was arguing against that. He just appreciated the curated experience and whatnot. I’d argue that I’ve had a very similar experience on Kubuntu, but I will also say that the updates haven’t always been as smooth as on my SteamDeck, but then again that’s also true on Windows.
In the end I’m just glad that Linux is getting more attention overall. Maybe someone will see this, decide that the Steam Machine isn’t the best for them, and install some other OS with KDE and have a similar experience. Whatever you think of Linus, him saying that 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop is a positive thing.
Nothing he says matters to anyone
What did I miss?
He let money and fame go to his head and lost touch with what was important; his ego is more important than doing the right thing to him. Constant inaccuracies in their videos. Original emplyoyees started jumping ship because they weren’t making enough. A bunch of scandals including messing up a review and tanking a startup before auctioning off the prototype the company lent them, employee harassment/verbal abuse, etc.
Good summary. I also remember it didn’t sit quite right with me that they were having company employees work on their private home renovation (and a second one, and maybe a third one, if I’m not mistaken?). “Here’s a long format YouTube video of people hoping to make it big in the media/tech industry doing up their millionaire bosses’ house” … Really?
They just hate anything that isn’t Gamers Nexus.
Did anything he say ever matter?
Yes, please let’s stop granting this dickhead relevance.
Yhea steam machine was designed to be faster than 75% (not your top 25% top gaming PC). I think think it’s fair of a lot of people to compair there before RAM-boom prices expensive computers to such an device.
I kind of agree with Linus here that SteamOS is an excellent option for a simple gaming OS, I will probably add another option to boot to soon
