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Valve's ACTUALLY working on a Steam CONSOLE! (open.lbry.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm really excited by this. I sold my nintendo switch a while ago and I miss handheld gaming while going on trips. and also the fact that alot of games will probably be ported to linux because of this. what do you all think?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

However all these games will likely work just fine on this Steam console, as all the OS will be fully open-source most likely. You might have to hack it slightly to stop it from auto-starting the Steam client, but based on the likely hardware inside there isn't anything that wouldn't work on a fully libre stack (AMD GPU firmware issue aside).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

The problem goes deeper than that. Libreboot is a must have

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Libreboot is a must have

Libreboot is a smokescreen if you have other proprietary blobs on your system possibly circumventing it. You have to look at the whole PC, libreboot is no magical bullet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Of course that it isn't. But if a device supports libreboot it means that it supports the Linux-libre kernel, so you can install a 100% free as in freedom distribution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

AFAIK Libreboot is a general problem on AMD systems right now. But at least there should be nothing preventing a libreboot to work on this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Libreboot can't be ported to post2008 machines (yet, although I don't think this is happening anytime soon) because they require proprietary blobs for booting. That's caused by Intel's ME and AMD's PSP.

So if this machine has an AMD processor, it can't be supported by Libreboot.