• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    It’s also invalid since PCs now can also do exactly that with Valve releasing Gamescope and Big picture, which people colloquially call SteamOS. Even though you can do the same thing on any Linux Distro. It literally does exactly that. It loads a console-like UI in Steam to select Games and doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop. Unless you want to boot that stuff up.

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      1 day ago

      Are you seriously comparing a full-blown linux distro with a gaming app preinstalled; to cartridge-era no OS consoles and CD-era BIOS-only consoles AND calling them exactly the same thing because they both have

      console-like UI in Steam to select Games

      ?

      Oh, and the latter (doesn’t load heavy stuff like a browser or desktop) is simply not true, because desktop is not heavy at all and steam ships with built-in web browser