Thread 107186659

Yeah of the troonix /b/ros. It's finally happening. Billions will use Arch!

>>107186659 (OP)
this way >>>/v/

>>107186659 (OP)
Arch is nothing more than just a minimal linux. If youre good with knowing which stable packages to install youll be good to go.

>>107186664
Cope. Arch won.

>>107186727
>Arch
>minimal

>>107186659 (OP)
what are the specs

>>107186659 (OP)
>troonix
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

>>107186659 (OP)
Fellow /g/tards, we need Valve/Steam Machine/Open Sauce memes, now!!! Billions must know

>>107186659 (OP)
why should I buy this overpriced shit when I can get a mini-pc for much less?

>>107186659 (OP)
>Billions will use Arch!
yeah and billions won't even know it or even care about it.

>>107186915
what mini pc has a dedicated GPU?

>>107186891
they were the only whites they could find

>>107186950
Seattle has plenty of whites though.

Imma guess base model 499

'eck on Frame

>>107186915
it wont be overpriced. it will be about 500-600.

>>107186659 (OP)

The greatest thing about this machine is the "certified steam machine" mode/settings all steam games now can be optimised for...

So this is a gigantic win for people with 8gigs of vram, as developers now has hardware they MUST optimize for - if they want to seriously sell their games on steam, having that approved stamp like the deck

>>107186841
Gentoo is not cool anymore, gramps.

>>107187521
Neither arch nor gentoo are minimal

>>107186864
Literally look at the website

>non-upgradable GPU
Does it even have eGPU support or will it eventually become a paper weight? Why didn’t they make the GPU upgradable?

https://youtu.be/JojyJC_ikAY

>>107188484
What website. Because 4ch is shit, no one posted any link or anything of substance at all. Goddamn bulletin board for lazy morons.

>>107188606
Search for OPs file name retard.

>>107186659 (OP)
>1 gig Ethernet
>DP 1.4
Useless consoomer garbage

>>107188516
>Does it even have eGPU support
nope, no usb4 or thunderbolt

>>107187451
good point. Doubt they can do it though. It's lost knowledge like how we can't go to the moon anymore

>>107188516
>non-upgradable GPU
said who?

>>107187049
The worst street in America still looks better than the average street in India

>>107186891
Topfuckingkek

>>107187067
It will cost more than a console.

>>107188882
I too think we should rise above indian cancer.

>its just another OEM PC
>but its in a sort of neat case
>faggots lose their minds over it
Have we not joked about the Gabe Cube for a decade now? The fat fuck himself made a cube. Why is anyone surprised.

>>107186915
Considering how much the Steam Deck undercut every single competitor, I think you're full of shit and won't be buying anything for less.

>>107186659 (OP)
Why does Valve hardware look so cheap?
It's like they're anti-Apple in that regard - hardware coming from a large, established, extremely rich company looking worse than random chink shit.

>>107188882
It says a lot that you have to compare American cities to the cloaca of the world to make them seem good.

>>107189968
steam deck could undercut all the competition because of volume
they don't really have that advantage here
though the SoC they're using is semi-custom so unlikely to be comparable to mini pc with whatever ryzen 9 ai pro max HH 1488

>>107189992
You're reading too much into it. The anon who posted >>107187049 is Indian. Hence the India comparison.

>>107187535
>linux from mental illness

>>107186659 (OP)
Playstations run BSD Unix.
We welcome Valve to the new millennium!

>>107190170
do they have any functionality of bsd unix? no, they're completely locked down cuckboxes which the steam machine won't be

If I hadn't already built my sff pc this year I might have considered it, depends on what its price is

But yeah, 16gb of ram... my 2015 pc had 32gb

>>107189994
The fuck you talking about? Steam Deck didn't ship any volume. It's a low production device.

>>107189940
If it makes the cancer in corporate OSes seem weird and unacceptable I'm all for it. If they must blow their money on ewaste let them blow their money on ewaste.

>>107186841
It's minimal because it doesn't have default DE or programs. It's up to you what you want to install. It's not ultra minimal but still very much minimal.

>>107190552
>It's a low production device.
I guess if your comparison is an xbox/ps
Analysts predict they sold millions.
Hell, just a million would make it an extremely high production device, well over the threshold for cost savings from mass production.

I know 3 people alone at work who had a deck, no one knows that the fuck any of the other handhelds are.

>>107186659 (OP)
It's ARM. You have like 3 distros you can run on that shit.

>>107189994
>though the SoC
no soc, it's a power limited ryzen 7500f and a pretty cut down but overclocked navi 33 die
very little if any semi custom sheanigans going on here, nothing like what the steam deck got

>>107190648
Can't read award

>>107190648
Retard.

>>107186659 (OP)
>btw

>>107187451
Or they'll just ignore it like last time. Pretty sure valve is going to charge $1200 for these and they'll die on the vine

>>107191207
Nah this shit hardware as-is will be $500 +/- $100 since anything more will piss off even their rabid fanboys. In ~2 years when Strix Halo is about to be EOL Valve will almost certainly release the Steam Machine Pro for $1000-ish since AMD will have leftover stock.

>>107191415
sad but true

>>107186659 (OP)
specs suck tho, imagine having only 8GB of VRAM

Waiting for Steam Deck 2

>>107191527
the customized gpu is a fucking 7600m. 1080p medium settings for triple a tops. what makes you think even 1 mb more of vram would help in any meaningful way?

>>107188861
The gamers nexus video mentioned its a soldered on gpu. They asked the designers about it and they said they considered socketed parts at first but went with this for heating and size reasons.

>>107191527
the only games that legitimately need more than 8gb are unrealsloppa that you shouldn't be playing at all, much less buying for a budget platform like the gabecube.

>>107187535
Gentoo is as minimal as you make it. It's a meta-distribution. You can build in all the fit or trim it completely. You can even make a custom image with only Busybox, Musl libc and runtime dependencies for an app and nothing else (I make custom docker images this way).

>>107186659 (OP)
based btw

>>107186659 (OP)
>Yeah of the troonix
>microdicks thinking that the only people who are allowed to be free are trannies

>>107191191
the fact the same is running on the Steam Frame is pretty interesting

>>107186659 (OP)
Just one more step towards removing Windows dependency for PCA gayming and I'm all for it

>>107190612
anon is more so saying that you install the development headers of the library(couple KB per package at best) additional KB when installing libraries.

>>107186864
>/g/fags more useless and retarded than /v/ermin

>>107186659 (OP)
>Billions will use Arch!
8% Linux users next year, I'm calling it. GabeN saved us.

>>107194318
/g/fags are literally just /v/irgins

>kde plasma
oh no no no

>>107193988
the translation layer for the games is more interesting
imo

>>107194811
>ARM
If it really just werks like they say that's some impressive engineering witchcraft ngl

>>107194811
The x86-to-ARM solution is an emulator and not a translation layer, they mentioned that in (I think?) The gamers nexus interview.
It's still very cool, but it won't be anywhere near as efficient as Proton

>>107195349
yeah but that can potentially have the same impact proton had on gaming on linux
which could be big

>>107195349
https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
Yeah it does emulation, although some api calls are apparently forwarded to the host os

I don't hate it but I also don't need it
it seems alright albeit if priced somewhere between $350 and $500

>>107186891
Daddy, why is that handsome rugby player dressed like a woman?

>>107195635
Based snek

>>107188633

nothing wrong lower spec like fast ethernet and HDMI 1.3