Orange Box 2. Then in another few decades we'd get Orange Box: Alyx.

A killer app is a great way to sell a "console". Windows port can come later.

Doubt it, considering Deadlock still only has Windows builds a year into alpha.

https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/depots/

Deadlock is an F2P live service game with a (very) Early Access release & development model.

Entirely different situation than bundling a finished HL3 + Steam Machine to achieve big sales.

Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc).

Why would you need a new PC to swap operating systems?

> Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc).

Can you elaborate on why high RAM prices mean Linux is less attractive? Do you believe a usable Linux environment uses more RAM than a usable Windows 11 environment?

They are assuming you’d build a new machine for Linux, I think.

OTOH Windows 10 support ran out recently so I guess there are a lot of unsupported Windows machines that could be perfectly fine as Linux refurbs.

this would be basically what they did with steam