Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
ag10n@lemmy.world 5 hours agoSo what you’re saying because Valve supports it out of the box is the limiting factor between a console and pc
The hardware supports it; it could be a PC if you want.
You skipped over the PS2 and how it was a console and marketed with Linux support directly from Sony
Let alone Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
A clever enough person can get a useable general-purpose OS running on just about any hardware. The entire point is that it’s user-friendly out of the box.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
So user friendly Linux running on it makes it not a console? For a while PS3 was just a couple button presses to get a full Linux distro booted on it. I don’t think anyone would argue PS3 wasn’t a console.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No, it just means a console that doesn’t support booting directly into a general-purpose OS isn’t a PC.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Totally agree there. MacBooks don’t even really qualify there and even probably near future when newer Windows devices come locked down.