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#Valve announces desktop machine and #VR goggles powered by KDE's #Plasma desktop.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

Nov 12 at 6:50pmWeb
Show threadVoidZeroOne   Nov 12

@kde oh 3D... Thought that garbage died for good a decade ago... Guess it just needs some "AI" to be great or whatever. The Hardware looks useful.

Edit: of course there's no price for it and it releases when both ram and storage prices are exploding...

Show threadМя ��Nov 12

@TheOneDoc maybe 3D/VR isnt The Next Big Thing™, but it is still useful & fun technology. Why not let it exist?

Not everything overhyped is bad. Some things really have applications, just not *that* much

@kde

Show threadrugkNov 12
@mo
And I mean gaming sure is some application (though a quite exhausting one when you just it longer).
@TheOneDoc @kde
Show threadJmvarsNov 13
@mo @TheOneDoc @kde fully agree. Let it exist.
Show threadJRTNov 12
@TheOneDoc @kde they said the valve index pricing is the ceiling and they still determine the price.
The index costs 1079€. So thats the maximum but with steam deck they did pretty aggressive pricing and thats a much more recent product.
Show threadKoutsie Nov 12
@kde letsgooo!
Show threadPixel DunnNov 12
@kde WHAT?
Show thread四Nov 12
@kde Well if it isn’t the XBox replacement.
Show threadChaz6Nov 12
@kde great news! Will the headset work with Steam running on Bazzite?
Show threadKoutsie Nov 12
@chaz6 @kde Most likely, its gonna be SteamVR afterall.
Show threadTondU  Nov 12
@chaz6 @kde If Bazzite supports ARM CPUs then It should
Show thread.ｂｅｅｊａｙNov 12
@kde I´d totally get it if i didn´t already have a really beefy machine. With KDE of course.
Show threadJuan D. Jara  Nov 12

@steamos this is the year of the Linux desktop


Show threadSteamOS :distro-steamos:Nov 13

yes it is and she's so beautiful and I love her so much


#steam-machine #steam-cube #steamos #linuxposting
Show threadLuukasNov 12

@kde That’s huge! Finally getting a PC with Linux pre-installed. And from a giant company.

Hope we see Linux getting more recognition after this release. Love seeing Valve put effort to Linux!

Show threadHyperbolix Prudens 🎹🖌️⌨️Nov 12
@luukas @kde You can already get Notebooks with Linux preinstalled from big comanies like Dell.
Show threadTatusNov 12
@kde , це дуже крута новина! Я хочу більше чути про успіхи лінукса
Show threadnullagentNov 12

oh wow they're doing foveated streaming, freaking brilliant 😍

@kde

Show threadCalicosineNov 12

@kde
Died: 2018
Born: 2025

Welcome back, Steam Machines.

Show threadCassidy James   Nov 12
@kde ooooooooooooh now this is a gaming PC I might actually consider buying…
Show threadbazzeteNov 12
@kde so good 
Show threadSoulfire The Wolf Nov 12

Whether or not I buy the steam frames is honestly dependent on how well it does AR. If at all.

I just looked it up and apparently it’s only monochrome so idk

Show threadSoulfire The Wolf Nov 12
Like, I’m not exactly wooed by the UX of the Steam Deck. And I really have to sit down and ask myself if I really want a PC in another unconventional form factor that follows Valve’s “lay down the groundwork and let the individual fill in the blanks” approach that follows most of their software.
Show threadSoulfire The Wolf Nov 12
Im just bored with the current VR software lineup. There’s only one app that I can say keeps me occasionally coming back (VRChat) and I have serious questions about its future. If not its current state of performance.
Show threadSoulfire The Wolf Nov 12
Having a huge interest in tabletop games right now, my number one killer app would be like tabletop simulator but in your living space.
Show threadcynical melomaniac Nov 13
@soulfirethewolf There are no explicit plans right now, but the VR headset does have an expansion slot built in fwiw.
Show threadRobert "Szkodnix" Nov 12
@kde Oh that's huge! ​​
Show threadCleo Menezes Jr. 🌵Nov 12
@kde really great, guys!!!! That's awesome
Show threadBubu Nov 12

@kde That's all nice and well, but the real news here is that there'll be a new steam controller 🙂!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller

Steam Controller

Your games at your fingertips

Show threadCyborusNov 12
@kde I hope they're financially supporting KDE
Show threadMáňa ZalabákNov 12
@Cyborus @kde sort of, they have upstream devs on their payroll. They pay lots of upstream devs, including for mesa, wine, kernel graphics...it's actually pretty satisfying for me to watch their FOSS involvement
Show threadCyborusNov 12
@mana_z @kde Payroll counts! Hooray!
Show threadtrainguyromNov 12

@kde since nobody else has said it, will 2026 truly be the year of the Linux Desktop?

Between Valve pushing hard with great hardware running Linux (and brilliant compatibility), windows 10 having gone EOL last month (and folks doing one year of extended updates having that expire during '26) the tides may in fact be turning

Show threadQuasarkaNov 12
@trainguyrom this would be cool. If steam machine will be popular, maybe developers will solve problem with anicheats on linux for their games
Show threadKinda AdoraNov 12

@kde Garbage with some Linux garbage installed, making it useless and against any normal everyday user.

Hard pass unless you're a collectionist.

Show threadAdam Williamson Nov 13
@kde is it the year of the linux desktop yet?!
Show threadxyhhx Nov 13
@kde which evangelion angel is this
Show thread🇧🇪 Andy Costanza Nov 13
@kde 2026 will be "the year of Linux Desktop" 😍
Show threadVLC 2.9 FoundationNov 13
@kde Truly remarkable. Finally, a chance to enhance the experience of XR hardware by having Linux instead of Android.