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   Some are seeing this gadget as a gaming console   
   .   
   (Plenty of other articles about it on just about every   
   computing-related site.)   
      
   It is, only insofar as the Steam Deck is a handheld gaming console.   
   But remember, the Steam Deck is a full Linux PC, with a full Linux   
   PC’s extensibility capabilities hidden behind that gaming-friendly   
   exterior, and so is this.   
      
   Where have we heard the “living-room PC” concept before? Why,   
   Microsoft itself tried it, with its ill-fated “Windows Media Center”   
   product all those years ago. Unfortunately, Windows is just too   
   complicated an OS to manage through an AV remote. Little Kodi boxes   
   running Linux turned out to be a lot more useful in that situation.   
      
   And SteamOS has already proven itself to be just as versatile in the   
   handheld form factor; with that track record behind it, I think it   
   will do well in the living-room, too.   
      
   And for those wanting to make the perennial joke about the “year of   
   the Linux desktop” -- looks like the “desktop” market has lost yet   
   another part of itself to Linux -- again.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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