He worked for them and made merely a few millions dollars

because he worked at microsoft

>>725979089
It's not that he hates Windows, he just doesn't make money from it
It's the reason steam even exists
He admitted he made steam solely to stop people being able to trade/resell copies of HL2 when they were done with it. To use it, you have to use an account tied to your email

Same reason he's making a Linux console, so you're 'locked in' to steam primarily

>>725979671
wow

>>725979089
Windows is an operating system made by low-IQ pajeets who lack Western concepts pertinent to good engineering, such as standards, attention to detail, and quality assurance. This has always been the case, but it's become worse over the past ten years as Microsoft has been replacing actual talented Western workers with overseas outsourced labor, some of which, at the time of hire, have never used an actual computer before.

Source: various ex-Microsoft-employees in my social and professional circle whose stories independently corroborate the details of each others' stories.

>>725979089
Because he can barely get doors to work. How the hell is he supposed to get out of windows?

>>725979089
Windows charges money if you want to install it on hardware you sell

>>725979089
you don't?
windows get worse and worse each update

>>725979089
>However, he added, the openness that helped Valve as well as firms such as Google and Zynga could disappear with Windows 8.

>"There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"

>This is seen by commentators, external to be a reference to the inclusion of a Windows Store in the Microsoft operating system.

>This is a shop through which users will be able to buy apps for their Windows 8 device.

>On versions of Windows 8 designed to run on ARM-based chips, it will be the only way to get downloadable software such as games.

>Microsoft takes a cut, up to 30%, of every sale made through this store, similar to that taken by Apple, Google and others on existing mobile app markets.

>This could be a significant threat to the massively successful Steam online game store that Valve runs and which gives it a commission on every title sold through the online market.

>A Windows Store closed to everyone but Microsoft might reduce the range of games available for sale through Steam.

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>>725979671
>Same reason he's making a Linux console, so you're 'locked in' to steam primarily
What?

>>725979089
Mini pc is unironically the future right now.
Zoomers are now interested in playing retro or cartoon looking vidya - something that even some ryzen igpu can run in ultra 120fps something without glowing gaming rigs and $3000 memecard - instead of rtx realistic shit slop.
People saw how meme 4090 was back in the day and now they prefer portability like handheld, vita, laptop, including mini pc.

>>725979671
>Same reason he's making a Linux console, so you're 'locked in' to steam primarily
What?

If PC gaming is all about shitting on the "bad performance and graphics" of the "Snoy Gaystation" and "Nintendie Shitch" why would they spec it so low?

>>725982112
>>725980871
It's aimed at people who have fucking clue about Windows or Linux and just want 'le gaming pc'
It's going to be sold at a loss. The idea is that the average retard who buys it will just purchase on steam only instead of shit like epic or gog and thus Gaben basically has a primary console to compete with ps/xbox/nintendo

>>725981019
APU are just getting to the point where they are really insanely over powered for the size and watts. Yes, strix halo is overpriced but it's equivalent to 4070 and has 32gb minimum of shared ram and vram built in to the chip itself. Data centers want GPUs not GPUs and CPUs integrated so the AI/crypto market can't swoop in and eat up the supply. In a couple years if you don't want to pay for the high end cards stuff like Strix on mini pc will be the best option.

>>725982317
>schizophrenia
Oh, yeah. Sure.
That makes sense.

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>>725982256
>If PC gaming is all about shitting on the "bad performance and graphics" of the "Snoy Gaystation" and "Nintendie Shitch"
It's not, that's what we laugh at whenever you consolefags have pathetic graphicswhore battles.
PC is all about doing whatever the fuck you want with your device.
That means Piracy, Emulation, Mods, Tweaking.
Better visuals and more importantly, better performance is just a bonus.

>>725982440
Anon, this is a basic black bitch economics plan
Gabe is all about the monopoly and trying to make PC into consoles

Zoom-zooms are just too young to have been around when he did shit like brought Steam to Russia at a loss to have it as the only dominant online PC store for games

Why wouldn't he hate Microsoft?

>>725979089
he jewed them out of a software store

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I will never use your tranny slop

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>>725982527
>give you an open machine you can install literally whatever the goddamn fuck your silly little brain decides to
>"noooooooooooooooooo, that's locking in the customer cause zoom zooms be stupid or something"
People being stupid has nothing to do with gayben, if you want to spend extra cash on overpriced cube that's their money, they spend it however they want. But that isn't "locking in", you can get a gayben cube and play games GOG just fine.

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>>725982695
Now replace Tux with Microsoft and you get the same exact shit as any Microshart employee

>>725982848
Hey there, retard! Kindly read the entire post chain and understand next time before trying to troll

>>725983019
Your very first post is talking about how a linux console is somehow "locking people in to steam", dumbass.

>>725979671
>Being this retardedly confident and wrong
Your modern "gamer", ladies and gentlemen

>>725979671
you're not locked into anything. when you buy a deck or a steam machine you can do whatever you want with it. load windows on it and play epic games store products exclusively, gabe and valve don't care. it's microsoft and sony that have the walled off systems that only allow you to do what they say you're allowed to do on the consoles you buy from them.

>>725983126
All of the chain. Not just the first without context for retards.

>>725979089
He used it before.

>>725983161
I'm aware, the next reply explained it
The goal isn't to sell a Linux console to people who know what the fuck they're doing
It's being sold a loss to retards who don't know any better and think it's a good deal

Literally the marketing campaign is going to be paid shills going 'bro this is worth 800 dollars but it's being sold at 500 dollars? Here's why you NEED this and why it's better than any other console'

It's just basic black bitch marketing for tech

>>725983161
>load windows on it
This isn't a proper Windows experience. The GPU drivers come from Valve, you can't install the regular drivers.

>>725983183
>"READ THE ENTIRE REPLY CHAIN, REEEEEEEEE"
>"And no, don't start on the first post, you gotta read before that"
Schizophrenia.

>>725983338
Y'know trolling is against the rules, right?

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>>725982317
That makes zero sense since whatever purchase you make is also available on Windows later if you choose to not to use Valve hardware. You're not locked in and Steam is already the dominant platform.

>>725983301
someone could figure out how to do the proper drivers, the point is that valve isn't going to put up a bunch of roadblocks to stop you from doing it. sony and microsoft would lock down the machine as hard as possible to prevent you from doing anything with it.

>>725983390
Anon, it is aimed at fucking retards/soccer moms/console bros

This isn't for the spergs on /v/

>>725983446
This is the Steam in Russia argument again
Can you pirate in Russia over Steam? Yes
Can you install Windows and deal with 'le scary windows' over just using Steam's official OS and based Valve support? Yes

Retards aren't going to pirate. Retards aren't going to install Windows or use WINE/Lutris
They'll stick to what the faggot tells them to do

>>725983294
ARGHGHSDFKHJSDKLFJ
FUCKING GABEN
FUCKING GABEN AND HIS
HIS SNEAKING FULL FLEDGED PCs THAT CAN ACTUALLY BE USED FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT INTO RETARDS HANDS AS A GOOD THING TO NORMALISE LINUX GAMING
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE AND DO MORE WILL SIMPLY DO IT HOW COULD HE
GABEEEEEEEN

I'm most likely going to buy and I WILL install Windows on it
Will dual boot and use their OS for games so since I imagine the performance will be better there desu

>>725983371
Is the entire thread "trolling" because they don't have the same flavour of schizophrenia as you do?

>>725983606
I'm actually curious if Gabe is retarded enough to lockdown the entire mainboard OS. I wouldn't be surprised if he does tbqh

>>725983712
Just like he did with his evil steam deck?

>>725979432
spbp

>>725979089
he installed windows 8

>>725983598
>aimed at fucking retards/soccer moms/console bros
to target these people you need retail presence which steam machine will not have

>>725983746
Steamdeck was 100% open and the entire point was to compete in an already chaotic market with chinese handhelds
It was also not sold at a loss

The actual Linux console they'll sell is going to be about 100-200 dollars cheaper than it's market value
The reason for this is to make it more appealing and it'll be treated as a console instead of PC. Shit like 'virus free, oficial free steam support' etc is going to be used
The steam deck was just trying to test to see if people would prefer Windows on it and people didn't

It's the same shit with the Linux console
People are jsut incapable of understanding basic strategy of marketing and selling

>>725983952
That is actually the funniest part about all this - it's online only, steam only, but easily obtained.
>have a problem? Jsut contact Valve direct and we can help. No more middle man to deal with
It's a simple but effective strategy

holy shit this board is retarded.

>>725983183
retarded puppy boy.

>>725984067
It's just paid shills from steam, anon
It'll get worse
The usual one that uses the 'you're too stupid to operate a linux system' hasn't arrived yet

>>725983886
That was the last good one though

>>725979671
This guy gets it, though obviously exaggerated.
Adding non Steam games to the deck interface sucks, contrast this with the Xbox app that now automatically adds non Xbox games to itself.

It's worth mentioning that the steamOS desktop is probably the worst example of a Linux desktop session right now, which is a concern with all the fanbois hyping it up setting themselves up for disappoinment
tl;dr
>Huge Linux gaming fan excited to try it for the first time

He probably used it.
Imagine being Gabe, an ex-Microsoft employee who helped with the creation of Windows, and seeing what modern Microsoft is like.
You'd have to be fucking deranged to not hate what Microsoft has become over the years, they've been pretty cancerous since the late 90s, it just became unbearable on the consumer side some time in the last decade where they made it obvious that they also want to assfuck their customers alongside their competitors.

>>725984035
>have a problem? Jsut contact Valve direct and we can help
retards/soccer moms don't want to go online and troubleshoot. if the machine doesn't work they want to go back to the store they bought it from and return it.

>>725984290
>Adding non Steam games to the deck interface sucks, contrast this with the Xbox app that now automatically adds non Xbox games to itself.
The Xbox app is a buggy piece of shit, while with the 'eck I can literally just add games to Steam the same way I do on my PC, then they'll show up in the non-Steam games tab in the gaming interface.

>>725984290
SteamOS isn't actually that pad for adding in new games to me
I didn't find ithard setting up Retroarch but I'm used to computers.
I think the biggest problem is going to be the split that comes with people familiar with computers and want it as acomputer replacement vs people who want it solely as a linux console

>>725984316
You'd think that. Retards like this just want to be heard
What works best? 'screaming at the retard who says ma'am I am sorry but we do not troubleshoot' or 'screaming at the retard who says ma'am please kindly ship it to use to fix'

>>725984290
Is SteamOS even open source?

>>725984604
>What works best?
'we will take it back and refund you if you have the receipt' when they bring it back to the store they bought it from

>>725984842
Anon, no fucking store does that outside of possibly small stores

>>725984904
EU regulation mandates that stores take it upon themselves to ship back to the company that produced it when brought back to the stores. So over here big stores have to do it by law.

>>725984904
i'm sorry you live in third world country but that's the legal requirement in civilised countries

>>725979089
Actual answer: Windows RT was limited to Microsoft store programs, and Gabe is shit-scared this kind of lockdown will come to Windows Proper one day. Getting vendorlocked into Windows is simply an unacceptable business risk for him.

>>725985214
Yes, I know. I'm an EUfag. I'm aware that shops are responsible. They aren't required to issue a refund on the spot because you're a retard, tho. That's the point. They will 'fix it' in so much as send it back to Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo and tell you to fuck off for a few months

You should probably read basic EU law instead of reading pop culture EU law

>>725985578
>and troubleshoot
Yeah you're a fag alright. Maybe you should try reading the context. If you're troubleshooting it means it's not working and it's technically faulty.

>>725985782
That... literally is the fucking definition, you retard
They have one fucking chance in the first six months
If they want to try to 'fix' it they must 'troubleshoot' it

Are you done or are you going to continue your shill campaign?

>>725985847
>shill campaign
Ok I'm going to sleep, retard.
>console doesn't work
>take back to store
>either get it fixed or refund

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>>725985578
>in the first 30 days it cannot refuse to give you a refund

>>725979089
>No DVD drive
How am I supposed to get my games into the thing?

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>>725986195
If you REALLY want it...

Judging by all the lies made by anti-steam shills itt, I'd say microjeet and shitendo are really scared of the gabecube/'eck 2. Yup, I'm thinking based gabe.

>>725986167
And what country?
Or we claiming the EU now has a 'Consumer Right's Act?'

>>725986495
It does, but it's 14 days for online or "distance" purchases. I bet you're french.

>>725986619
>it does
Great, link it!

>>725980772
>Mark Tyson
He hasn't been shit since he lost to Buster Douglas.

>>725986675
>Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU
I can feel your french faggotry radiating at me through the intertubes. Look it up yourself.

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>>725979089
He hates his mistakes
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/167253-gabe-newell-made-windows-a-viable-gaming-platform-and-linux-is-next

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>>725986783
Ah, my apologies for not being clear! I am truly sorry, you cannot comprehend basic English.
You seem to be linking something that is named something called 'Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU'
That appears to be different than the claim in this post here, which is called, of course, 'The Consumer Rights Act'
>>725986167


Perhaps you can now revisit that post that I quoted and find that exact EU Act, my confused friend :)

>>725984904
walmart does this lol

>>725986897
ayyyy ay yo dis nigga usin wifi cables LMBAO

>>725979089
The airflow looks horrid

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>Microsoft once floated the idea of requiring all windows apps to be installed from the windows store
>This would mean steam gets hit with microsoft's (at the time) 30% fee
>This was unacceptable to Gaben because a 30% fee would crush steam
>After billions of dollars and a decade and a half of R&D linux has like 3% of the marketshare on steam
The ironing

>>725986948
he is a yuropoor who deluded himself into thinking he lives in the civilised part of the world

>>725986948
I can take an electronic device in after 2 years and they just refund me if I throw it against the wall to break it? Neat

>>725986927
You're not french. It's worse than I could have ever imagined. You're belgian.
>>725987208
>I can't return things in my hellhole
>That means other anons also can't return things
Kek.

>>725987490
Please link the article

>>725979671
>admitted he made steam solely to stop people being able to trade/resell copies of HL2 when they were done with it
???

>>725984290
>Adding non Steam games to the deck interface sucks,
Really? I've never used the deck but on normal steam it's literally just a menu option, you go games>add non steam game, navigate to the executable and that's it
and proton is just fully open anyway so even if you don't want to use steam you can still use all the same runners with Lutris or whatever else you want. They put a ton of work into improving Wine and gaming on linux got massively better ridiculously quickly and they put literally zero effort into preventing you from just taking advantage of all of their work without ever interacting with their ecosystem or giving Gaben a cent.
Like yeah Gabe obviously wants you to use Steam and spend money on their store and they are doing all this work so they aren't shackled to Windows in the future and want to secure their market position against Microsoft's constant attempts to force people into exclusively using their store and shit, but it is kind of insane that they're also just letting anyone else use all this shit for free. The only reason you can't play fucking Fortnite on steam and give Tim your money instead is because they artificially block linux users from connecting to their servers. Everything else, even the anticheat would work and Valve would let you if they could.

>retards think gaben is going to make a locked down linux console
How are some people so stupid?

>>725987738
It was back in an interview with gamespot

>>725987794
NTA but SteamOS isn't really the same as Windows/Linux/Mac as a desktop
It is slightly more annoying but I hooked mine up to a dock to use a monitor/keyboard/mouse and was able to do it

Valve is doing their best to make SteamOS their own locked down system but have to contend with the small, but still vocal, part of the linux userbase that are stallman level of retards who would try to fucking bomb their offices if 'valve didn't let us do what we want'

The linux console is designed for retards who know nothing a bout PC but just know 'PC is based with their sales'

>>725988019
>It was back in an interview with gamespot
Of course you have an url, right?

>>725979089
I can understand it. I wouldn't be willing to ship a console running an OS I can't control.

>>725988059
I'm going to say yes
Now you will ask for the link that gamespot has removed but fuck off with your shilling

>>725988019
>NTA but SteamOS isn't really the same as Windows/Linux/Mac as a desktop
It is in desktop mode.
It is literally just a KDE desktop environment.
Anyone who's actually used one already knows this.

>>725988179
No proof? No even archive link? Ok

>>725988186
It actually isn't
It's still a shitty KDE version, that's the problem

>>725988302
Now tell me how I'm lying. Go ahead.

>>725988019
can't you just leave big picture mode and use normal steam?
and then just close steam if you want and use the normal linux desktop environment?

>>725988019
>Valve is doing their best to make SteamOS their own locked down system but have to contend with the small
If they really wanted to make SteamOS a locked down system, they would've pulled an Android and made Proton part of Steamworks. Not saying they won't in the future, but Gaben at least seems committed to keeping things open.

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>>725987108
>3%
not when you exclude the irrelevant demographics like russians and chinks
and only a quarter of those is the steam deck

>>725988358
Burden of proof is on you so I don't have to discredit a baseless claim.

>>725988358
>It actually isn't
You're retarded.

>>725988386
How do they calculate market share anyway? If someone has a Windows desktop and a Steam deck, does Valve put a point in both the Windows and Linux categories?

>>725988573
it's a survey, it asks at random
it should've been a forced census that's opt in by default unless you choose to opt out, that data could be way more reliable

>>725982695
Honestly nothing he said is unreasonable. I don't care how you dress or what you call yourself, but don't try to make me use pronouns or play in womens sports. Don't care if you're gay. Don't care how many abortions you have, it's self-imposed eugenics, and I'm all for it. Some level of social safety nets are reasonable, but welfare recipients should not vote. Violent offenders should not own guns. Police should use racial profiling. There is an IQ disparity between the races. Whites deserve their own countries like everyone else. Anyone attempting to cross a border illegally should be shot for trespassing. Politicians advocating for open borders should be hanged for treason. Womens suffrage is the worst thing to happen to human civilization. Am I woke too? Does this break your brain?

>>725984290
>Adding non Steam games to the deck interface sucks
It even creates a protonprefix for you and makes it as compatible out of the box as possible. The only possible issue is that it doesn't have "add non-steam game" in deck UI, but then again you have to download it somehow, so if you're trying to run a non-steam game, you had to open desktop mode anyway to download it. If they wanted to fuck you over, you'd be creating proton environment for your non-steam games yourself.

For anyone who hasn't used a deck (or something similar like bazzite) and is getting confused by this thread: SteamOS has two modes.
>gaming mode
You have the Steam UI and you have the game (if any), and you have nothing else. You can do everything with a controller. Very console-like.
>desktop mode
You get a KDE desktop, which looks/feels/behaves a lot like Windows. In this mode, Steam is just an application like any other, and the same goes for any game you're running.

On a Deck, most people will leave it in gaming mode and only switch to desktop mode if they want to set up an emulator or something.
With the new machine, there'll be two types of users.
Those treating it as a console (TV, controller, couch) will mostly use it in gaming mode and possibly never press the desktop mode button.
Those treating it as a PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, desk) will mostly use it in desktop mode and possibly never switch to gaming mode.

>>725979432
I can confidently say there's not a single employee at Microsoft that likes Windows

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>>725979671
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

>>725989068
Thank you, shill.
You have, proven, my beautiful point

>>725988901
the "well regulated militia" part is objectively incorrect at least
you can have whatever opinions you want about gun control but that specific line in the 1770s pretty indisputably means "in good order" or "well organized and prepared" not "subject to many regulations" like the modern usage of the term would imply

>>725989021 (Me)
(Come to think of it, it would probably be smart of them to rename "gaming mode" to "TV mode" or something like that.)

Windows is kinda horrible and steamOS seems to be the only cohesive effort made to replace it

Idk why the rest of the world is so incompenent at making a windows competitor that it has to be valve who does it.

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>>725989238
Ok anon.

Guess it's being on the mercy of Microsoft (which is increasingly more of a circus ever since win8.1) versus trying to popularize an open solution to which everyone, including them, can contribute. Just look at the freedom they have, they wanted to make vidya work, they took Wine, collaborated with some bigger linux figures, made Proton, it works like a dream now.

holy schizophrenia

>>725989067
NT is functionally end of life, but upper management just won't kill it.

>>725989535
>Idk why the rest of the world is so incompetent at making a windows competitor
Productivity software. It's windows' last and greatest moat.

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Microsoft is the bestest company that never makes mistakes

>>725979089
does anybody really like windows in its current form?

>>725989535
Sysadmin here
Because the alternatives for managing users/computers is primarily shit. The other reason is that enigneering/law/most fucking software is reliant on it

>>725989846
How so?

>>725990038
Who misses Widows Metro

>>725990038
jeets

>>725979089
It sucks ass and he can't make it not suck ass.

>>725979671
>He admitted he made steam solely to stop people being able to trade/resell copies of HL2 when they were done with it
>which is exactly what they did with the console versions anyway
I bet you made that shit up bro

>>725982527
i hate millennials so much it's unreal

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>>725979089
>Why does Gabe hate Windows so much?
What rational person doesn't hate Microsoft and Windows at this point? Win 7 was the last good thing MS ever made and it's been down hill ever since then. Win8 being a retarded cluster fuck back when they tried to get this shit to work on a smart phone as my breaking point, I barely even knew what a Linux was and initially legit considered becoming a iToddler when I saw this retarded tiling shit on my screen for the first time but then I read on Jewoogle that Ubuntu is a super duper easy to use OS, it actually frustrated the every living fuck out of me but I did enjoy the fact that it was less resource hungry and eventually learned there were distros that weren't shit that traded Microsoft telemetry for Amazon's telemetry.

Also proton is a god send because I could barely get shit to work half the time in standard wine, granted I'm not even all that tech savvy but just stubborn.

>>725979671
>Same reason he's making a Linux console, so you're 'locked in' to steam primarily
There's nothing stopping you from using alternative platforms like GOG DLsite or Itch IO anon. In fact why don't you go put your money were your mouth is an go buy a vidya game from one of those store fronts if you hate monopolies so much.

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>>725990038
people who buy iphones annually, have ps5 or a switch 2, play only AAA games that came out in the last 10 years, and subscribed to streaming services and gamepass because piracy is le evil, i guess?

>>725990410
I'm a boomer

>>725990486
Yes but the issue is that it's not aimed

>>725979671
He made the SteamOS to kill Microsoft's monopoly on PC gaming with Windows. Releasing SteamOS to other handhelds and releasing a desktop version of the SteamOS for the Steam Machine is a clear challenge to Microsoft's next gen plans with Xbox which they converted into Windows gaming now. Microsoft will try to copy Valve like how Sony copies Nintendo.

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>>725990792
iPhone users like sticking with the iOS ecosystem

>>725989535
>Windows is kinda horrible and steamOS seems to be the only cohesive effort made to replace it
It has nothing to do with Windows' quality, but the third party software that has latched onto it. Even the way Valve doesn't always work because of DRM

>>725979089
I love the case, might buy a midcycle refresh to use as my desktop

>>725979089
I wonder why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ykpbMs0OAg

>>725979089
>Why does rational human hate Windows so much?
There's a lot of reasons to hate Nu-Windows, for me the final straw was seeing fucking ads in my file manager.

>>725982256
>muh bad graphics
Most of us PC gaymers are using shitty intel potato's with second hand mid range graphics cards from before the era of full on collective retardation when people started throwing away their money at crypto speculation NFT's and Ai slop.

If the GabeCube is sold at a reasonable loss it would legit be a major upgrade for me and I might drop my plan to build a new PC out of a Silverstone case I've been eye balling but I'll wait to see how non shill reviewers react once they have one themselves first. Could be a great deal especially if DDR5 RAM prices continue being fucked.

>>725979089
>ship every gabecube with a windows license
>it's now $200 more expensive for that alone

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>>725979089
>Why does Gabe hate Windows so much?

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>>725991653
>It has nothing to do with Windows' quality,
i actually use win11 kys

>>725979089
>fingerprints clearly visible
embarrassing marketing team

>>725990925
>Yes but the issue is that it's not aimed
wat

>>725989067
Well thats on them for purposefully making it shit. If they hated it so much then they should make it good instead of being faggots about it.

>>725979671
>He admitted he made steam solely to stop people being able to trade/resell copies of HL2 when they were done with it. To use it, you have to use an account tied to your email
you can quite literally back-up DRM-free .isos for friends and pass them around.
I used to hook a poorfag friend up all the time.
You used to be able to sync your Steam to your GoG as well and do it with theirs.
Also for older games you can literally just right click > view CD key and use that.

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>>725992306
Windows 11 sucks ass and even iToddlers are laughing at (You).

>>725992542
>for non-retards it's easy to get around
Anon, I've been pirating fucking games since the early 80s
Yes, it's easy
It's not globally marketable

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>>725992552
Laptop only works with win 11 what am i supposed to do, I hate Micropenis with every fibre of my being

>>725979671
It's already been confirmed you can install whatever OS you want on that thing

the concerns of retards who are unable to install an OS are of no importance to me

>>725993295
To you.
To the Big Guy who will hurt when the mask is taken off? It means his world and he counts on it

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>>725992274
>this is what they replaced clippy and tay with
MS is devolving

>>725992986
>Laptop only works with win 11
What brand? I thought even Microsoft's own surface line of laptops could run Linux with minimal tinkering.

>>725993457
>>725993295

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>>725990038
No.

>>725979089
His primary business is selling PC games but the primary OS used to play PC games is Windows, and he has no control over Windows while it has been constantly getting worse and worse. If Windows fucks up in some major way it could severely impact PC gaming and as such Gabe's business, so he wants to build a viable alternative such that PC gaming and by extension Steam are not completely vulnerable to MS fuckups.

>>725993572
some laptops have an audio card that only works with win11, dunno if that issue got fixed

I actually do not hate Microsoft and Windows.

>>725979089
He's not nintendo, and he's not Indian that will do for me.

>>725994078
I do now. Everythig they have done in win11 is cancer and terrible for the end users. Win 10 is my last MS Os.
t. Former 90s Microsoft blue badge win 95-XP.

How the fuck do corpos and govts put up with microsoft's bullshit? I can't imagine they actually like the garbage that is win11. Some of these issues are so bad they end up on the news. How does the US govt not whip these retards into shape for fucking up this much?

>>725994620
aren't EU companies planning to switch linux? as for america maybe they're worried about how shitting on microsoft will effect the economy

this shit is gonna flop so hard

>>725979089
He got scared of the Microsoft store stuff and decided to hedge bets by investing in Linux so that steam could never be hamstrung by an external company.
proton and all that is purely a defensive move against Microsoft control.

Microsoft on the other hand is getting cosy with hardware manufacturers so that in the future your motherboard/ram might only run Microsoft Approved™ Secure™ OS and Software, which our toothless anti-trust laws would probably just let this happen.

moral of the story is Microsoft always will be and always has been an evil company.

>>725979089
Gabe doesn't hate windows but the reason he's invested in Steam OS is to have a back up plan since at one point when Microsoft was making Windows 8 they considered locking down all other app stores like steam to create a walled garden for the windows store. Gabe didn't like having his company's future be dependent on Microsoft being retarded so making a linux OS that's easy to use and designed for gaming for your customers to fall back on is insurance to maintain a user base for Steam in case Microsoft shits the bed for PC gaming as a whole.