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People saying just build your own steam machine don't get its appeal (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago by avocado@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Doing it yourself would mean visiting one of those build your own pc forums for help, and I think most people would rather kill themselves.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Can confirm, if you search steam in Ubuntu, it automatically gives you their buggy 3rd party snap. I didn't realize it until steam link didn't work, and all the file paths for debugging were really weird.

Also installing Ubuntu on hardware runs the same risk as installing windows on hardware: hardware may or may not be supported or easy to get going.