Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 hours agoA 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 12 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 11 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 10 hours ago
Totally agree there. MacBooks don’t even really qualify there and even probably near future when newer Windows devices come locked down.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Wrong. MacBooks have Linux, and you can download code from wherever and run it. There’s a terminal you can run commands in. If you want, you can completely fuck it up. macOS is worlds apart from iOS, and MacBooks are more a proper computer than probably even the Steam machine we’re discussing here.