Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

Re:Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you c... by artisinal on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:32AM (#48775545)

For a small gaming box it is a good price.

If you don’t care that much about size, HDMI-CEC or SteamOS there are faster alternatives for the price.

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Re:Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you c... by voidUpdate on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:35AM (#48775585)

Especially since, afaik, you plug it in and it just works. No messing around with installing operating systems, setting up users (aside from signing into steam) or anything. It's essentially a console that plays PC games, but it's also a PC for the purposes of upgradability and ability to do other, non-console stuff with it

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Re:Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you c... by weberer on Friday July 03, 2026 @11:54AM (#48776510)

>No messing around with installing operating systems

This is the real killer feature. So many people that I talk to know they want Linux, but are deathly afraid of installing it themselves.

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Re:Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you c... by hamdingers on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:00PM (#48777900)

If you do care about SteamOS, any machine with a reasonably recent AMD GPU will run SteamOS or a similar distro just fine.

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