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    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      25·
      10 months ago

      Valve wants nothing more than for other devices to ship Steam OS. They make some money on them, especially more expensive tiers, but the purpose is to allow people to play more games on PC instead of consoles, and in particular Linux so they’re less reliant on Microsoft.

      They don’t actually care who sells the hardware.

      • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        10 months ago

        Competition in terms of hardware is still competition, regardless of if Valve maintains their share in another market. Even then, SteamOS seems to be primarily an attempt to disrupt an even bigger, more powerful, and more malicious monopoly: Microsoft.

          • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            10 months ago

            Again, that doesn’t mean they’re not competeing. Valve is using their presence in the online retailer market to help fund their hardware, but its not like they’re releasing them for free or anything and its not like most other hardware OEMs can’t do this. Companies like Asus and MSI aren’t small companies, they can and do use the same tactics if the market is worth it. Even assuming they’re released literally at-cost, Valve isn’t exactly an established OEM - other companies already have decades of experience, established computer manufacturing and logistics networks, Valve is the new disruptior trying to get established, not the other way around.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    So do Valve actually license Steam OS now? I thought it wasn’t fully open source? Or are they using Chimera?