let me run steam on it

This. Actually one of the reasons why Valve didn’t sell GabeCube at loss or even at 0 markup, they prices it fairly well (compared to other prebuilds). Otherwise it would be an amazing deal - cheap and small prebuild desktop PC.

Same with PS5, if they allowed to install linux, people would start buying their consoles and *gasps in horror* - use device as they please, which means not buying games from their overpriced store. It actually already happened before with PS3, I recall article that some even used it for making a cluster essentially DIY’ing super computer. I doubt people would do the same with PS5 and realistically, they not even selling this console at loss, so they absolutely wouldn’t lost anything, but like, it’s Sony we are talking about.