Valve may be developing a “Steam Box” powered by SteamOS
The new kernel designed for “AMD Lilac” hints at possible new hardware
The device seems more of a competitor for Nvidia Shield than an upcoming Steam Deck 2.
Would buy this day one. I really hope these rumors are true.
If I could put a decent linux TV targeted distro on a minipc then I’d happily use it now.
This is what I’m using, and required no tinkering.
I use it for VR and step mania, too.
It’ll primarily be a gaming device but if they did ever push to be a HTPC type box, Roku is more vulnerable than Google and Apple I think. I’d love to see HTPCs get another shot at the living room and get app support from the popular streaming services
I definitely think that’s the last big item steamos is missing, a bar at the top of streaming services.
Edit, that sounded sarcastic but it wasn’t, I honestly want that, it would allow me to convert the rest of the family TV’s to steam
I am definitely interested if it has decent apps to replace my aging Roku. I do have the Steam deck docked to my TV. I was interested in an updated Nvidia Shield Pro if it ever came out, but I would like to see what Valve comes up with.
I’d love a shield replacement (even though it’s pretty much fine), but how are you going to get streaming to work properly? Are you going to support all the DRM stuff platforms require to stream reasonable quality video in Linux?
TIL the Steam Deck isn’t doing the same thing as the Shield.