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Comment by nabla9 | Hacker News Reader

Nvidia should join with Valve and make it a high-end gaming console.

It would be nice dual use system.

I would support this if it meant that Nvidia would improve their Linux drivers. As it stands, though, a device running SteamOS on Nvidia hardware sounds painful.

It'll take a long time for them to rebuild their reputation on that front. I threw away a pile of perfectly serviceable NVIDIA desktop boards a while back because they were "supported", but they couldn't do stuff like run modern compositors or even XScreenSaver.

These were high-end boards that worked fine in Linux when I bought them (as long as you were willing to periodically patch + recompile the kernel from a text console).

Anyway, once they have feature parity with Windows + current CUDA with a 100% open source stack going back a decade, then I'll consider them again. Until then, I'll happily buy an AMD that's 90% as fast for the same price.

There are already a ton of high-end gaming consoles you can buy today with nvidia chips. In fact, this is exactly what I did for my own AI machine (dual 3090s).

A console would be a device like an XBox, PS5 or Switch. Of those, only the Switch (current + next gen) are NVIDIA devices. The Steam Deck and the other current generation consoles are all AMD.

it would be nice if Valve's Steam Big Picture mode actually worked with Nvidia. It's still not the case.

Their last console probably inspired them to not try again for a while.

The steam deck? I would say it was fairly successful.

I got my products mixed up in my head. I retract that. Thanks.

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