Linus gaming got simple when steam dropped steamOS as a stand alone operating system. I went from windows 7 to steamOS. First was the steam piston, now I have a steam machine (Alienware / dell) and a steam deck. It's as easy as console gaming but with all the flexibility of PC gaming.

And before I get shit for prebuilts, sometimes you just want to play, and shit just works. Also am poor.

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

am poor

own Alienware PC and Steam deck

Yeah... that's not what being poor is.

[–] willeypete23@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if you want to be pandantic owning a computer for gaming excludes you from being poor. Otherwise, if we're doing cost relative to performance, you can pick up an alienware alpha for cost of the graphics card.

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on what you mean by "computer for gaming". You pretty much need a computer at home for school work, printing and sending documents, maybe even some work from home. A lot of this can be done with a phone or tablet nowadays, but that wasn't the case 5 years ago, which is why lots of people have an old-ish computer. And yes, this computer can be used to play games, not all the newer ones, but still plenty of games.

If you have a dedicated, modern and expensive computer only for games (and note that this includes consoles), yeah that definitely does exclude you from being poor.

[–] spasm01@lemmywinks.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they still making new steam machines?

[–] ThaNook@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT TRAINS?

no?

ok sorry