Want a magic box that just works? #SteamMachine is for you. Want to build your own, choose your own components, architecture, even OS? You can do that too.

Both ways are completely compatible with each other. No corporate lockdowns or gatekeeping.

That's how technology should work.

#Valve is leading the way in how you can build a polished commercial ecosystem that still lets you do what you want, and plays nice with everyone else.

#bigtech #linux #gaming #techtyranny #steamos

Quick reminder on the likely reason why Valve's New Steam Machine only supports #HDMI 2.0:

""At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.""

This is what Alex Deucher, the maintainer of the amdgpu #kernel driver, said one and a half years ago here:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd…

And from the ticket it looks like the problem remains.

See also Alex's earlier comment from early 2021 in the ticket:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd…

""HDMI 2.1 is not available on #Linux due to the HDMI Forum.""

#LinuxKernel #Valve #SteamMachine