I have to keep using the megacorporate OS because the other megacorporation won't let me play their slop game unless they can install a virus on my computer!

been playing on linux for many many years.

never once have I been stopped by kernal level anticheat.

Weird, its almost as if good games don't use invasive spyware rootkits.

I don't need it but I want it. The GabeCube has basically the best of both worlds, the ease of use of consoles and the multi purpose usage of a PC. That's also why it can't be priced like a console I'm afraid. It has to be sold at least at cost (production+development) and can't be subsidized by game sales like a PS or Xbox. A console without games is pretty much useless, the Steam Machine without games is still a damn fine PC.

I mean thats gonna be the joke. If steam machine really does take off, developers will come, just like they're starting to cater to the deck. It'll set a standard for what people want to play on and what they need to make sure their game works on. This is beyond anti cheat and DRM but it'll be interesting to see how the momentum picks up.

I'd bet that Microsoft is already thinking about getting gamepass working on it (for better or worse)

Heh, just today: Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

I don't think I need it, but I'm super glad it's going to exist.

If it came with a native DVD reader and my PS4 suddenly died, I'd have some choices to make, however.

In all honesty, I think it might be overall better if games like Fortnite, CoD or Fifa never get patched for Linux. The vast majority of their players are just addicts who fell victim to the predatory mechanisms. One of the few effective solutions is to cut them off this stuff.

Ideally, these games shouldn't exist, at least not in their current form. But it's not like billionaire sociopaths will stop feeding on the weak and poor anytime soon.

If it does not work on Linux I simply won't buy it.

I am excited for the steam machine because of the anti cheat issue. If we push for linux gaming, they are forced to either find a ~~spyware~~ kernel anti cheat solution for linux or drop the ~~spyware~~ kernel anti cheat.

The best part of Linux is shitty games don't work on it.

You don't use Linux because of kernel anti-cheats

I don't play CoD because kernel anti-cheats

We are not the same

The thing is this is a legitimate problem for the overall success of this. And the success of Linux as a general gaming OS. If people can't play their staples like CoD or fortnite or anything else with this problem, then that'll be enough to decide not to get this. Most people here probably don't care, but we're not the majority. And a lot of us probably aren't in the market for this anyway.

Sounds like an Activision-Blizzard problem to me.

This.

If they want to make their game incompatible with the best gaming systems I will simply not play it.

I see this as an absolute win.

Its hard to even phrase this in a way that doesnt show that the game is clearly the problem and not linux

Valve is putting serious money behind Linux and has a lot of pull with game devs. They will fall in line soon.

You can literally install windows on it if you want

Oh no! It only plays the CoD games that were good.

IMO: let windows have that, as these games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.

I'm not sure that anyone who cares that much about COD has any level of overlap with PC gamers. Or really with any gamer, period. "Oh, no, I can't play the cod game this year. Womp womp." Said nobody over the age of 18, ever. They'll play the next one when it comes to steam machine. Lmao.

Edit: key phrase "anyone that cares that much". Yes, everyone engages in hyperbole.

It's a feature

Boycott the Call of Duty mines.

They could sell it as a machine that protects your privacy and prevents any privacy invasive software from running in it