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Re:Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines by rurounijones on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:40AM (#7016172)
I thought the steam machine would be more console-like in its uniformity but it seems to be more a case of "Limited compatible component guaranteed to work with Steam" sets of PCs.

Sounds like a good place to look if you want a normal desktop Linux PC which is almost guaranteed to be compatible.

Re:Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines by kayoone on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:58AM (#7016215)
Yep, and Steam Machines should make very good Windows-PCs as well. After all they are well designed, reasonably small, have a proper cooling solution and run standard hardware.