Zathalus
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The proof is in the pudding. With the pudding in this case being tens of billions of dollars.Top status of the console market is an axiom.
It doesn't need proofs.
[Financial Times] Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next? // Deepdive
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S0ULZB0URNE
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Half Life 3 on PlayStation 5?
Topher
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Every time Valve jumps into hardware, it is like a side project that could fail miserably and the company wouldn't miss a beat. That's the benefit of not having to answer to stockholders.
nemiroff
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Imagine if someone told you in 2002 that in a few years people would start paying for all their PC games.
Sorcerer
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This is interesting. I thought Steam let devs/publishers set their own prices. Does Valve actually have guidelines for devs/publishers when it comes to pricing?
Guilty_AI
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They do let devs/publishers set their prices, only pricing guideline i know of is that steam keys and steam store prices must be the same, same discounts too.
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Shockwave_Fox
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Honestly, no idea - as a console guy looking to possibly move to PC gaming I want something as "console like" on PC for my TV as possible, Steam OS looks like it could do that (and others like Bazzite etc)
Id only be using it for gaming so none of those other bits worry me - I also just dont get how to write and use Python no matter how much I try sadly.
Guilty_AI
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SteamOS 3.0 is based on arch linux. Whatever arch linux can do can be done with it.
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Topher
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Yes to all
Guilty_AI
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Office would prob need wine to run though, or an alternative app as its microsoft's
Topher
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Yeah, either LibreOffice or Office 365 in the browser are the best options, imo. I haven't tried Office via wine.
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IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Practice makes perfect. I taught myself with books and YT videos.
If that's the case, then they'll be eating into Microsoft's lunch.
I'd certainly consider the switch to Steam if it ran Office 365 and Python.
StereoVsn
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Yep, there are several Office suites on Linux, and you can always use Google's suite or MS online.
People always confuse "Office Suite" with MS Office specifically.
For vast majority of folks anything decent will suffice unless it's for work where certain formatting is expected.
You could also run a VM if you absolutely need actual Windows.
Edit: And of course you can run Python based code on Linux, lol. Hell, it didn't use to run on Windows at one point at all. You can even use VS Code if you are used to that.
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rm082e
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If they could pull it off, I would switch my PC to SteamOS in a heartbeat. I'll use my other machines for office stuff.
They have guidelines, but also implemented some restrictions around sales. Things like you can't put something on sale within xy number of days that's a lower price from what you just offered. That's to prevent mass refunding and rebuys if a game drops another 5% two weeks after another sales just ended.
They also rolled out clauses for trying to get games on Steam offered for the price of bundles. IE a games in a bundle for $18 on Humble Bundle, it should be available on Steam at some point soon for $18 or less.
Valve lets devs create keys for free and those keys activate on steam to download the game and get benefits like cloud saves etc. Those keys go out to Humble, and 3rd party sites like Fanatical, Green Man Gaming, etc. The guidelines say to match prices on Steam with these other sites. Valve is loosing money on these 3rd party sales as they are supporting the games, at least make it fair so Steam is the same price rather than a dev selling key directly for 15% off to try getting around Valve's cut from sales through Steam.