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Honestly I'd much rather have Hardware Innovation and Linux Gaming Enthusiast Valve than Made Yet Another AAA Shooter Valve.

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Yet another successful game vs Yet another failing hardware device.

The Valve Index is working just fine. If you follow VR devices, it's actually now the only one with good support and no huge privacy issues.

I wonder about the privacy issues here to be honest. The "FAQ" linked to by the site says "we can go to ign.com on it" but what happens if we do? Does Steam see that we went there? Do they log that? If we log into our bank accounts on the device does Steam see that too? What telemetry are they collecting? Does changing the OS prevent all of it? Will there be ads?

It's cool tech, but I have to ask how will it be used against me? Will it only be pushing me to spend more of my money on Steam games or is there something more?

They've basically configured an out-of-the-box Arch system to boot into Steam Big-Screen. That's as privacy-respectful as it gets.

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