Isn’t that an Nvidia issue? AMD gpus work fine.

Well, no. That’s why they used custom parts. I’d rather have a slightly larger machine that I can actually maintain though.

Also why are you so confident devs will “optimize” for the steam deck? That’s just wishful thinking and I highly doubt it would happen. I also don’t know what you’re talking about when you mention “software support”. Every pc component I’ve bough has had software support from its manufacturer.

There’s not even a cost advantage. We don’t know the price but valve already said that it should cost about the same as building a similar pc.

The settings are optimized, not the game itself. There’s quite a big difference between those two. Why are you assuming that there would be special versions of games for the steam machine if there aren’t any for the steam deck?

And no, if I tell you that I’ve never used a steam deck preset, it’s because I haven’t. I always tweak the settings myself or at the very least check them.

And if only that machine could use OEM parts so that people could upgrade and fix it 🤔

You can just buy a steam controller, hdmi cec is minor feature imo and I’m not really sure what you mean about the OS being so much better than “anything else out there”. Install bazzite and you’re most of the way there.

That’s literally not a selling point imo. Also, I’ve literally never used a “steamdeck” preset on my steam deck.

I’d rather have a machine that’s slightly more incovenient to use but that can be upgraded and is also easier (and cheaper) to repair.

Most developers don’t test on my setup and games have always worked fine. Adjusting game settings is not rocket science. Worst case scenario, you use the low/medium/high presets.

If you don’t want to build it just buy a prebuilt. It’s not that hard.

You can pretty easily just build an itx system and install linux on it. It might be a bit bigger, yes, but it’d also be easier to fix and upgrade. I believe the only thing you can change in the steam machine is the storage.

Or just use two dns providers. I have duckdns and desec. That latter seems to be a bit faster and has’t had any downtime for me so far.