https://cuigh.com/tags/steam-machine/ Recent content in Steam Machine on AI Pulse Hugo en-US Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:42:00 +0800 https://cuigh.com/posts/steam-machine-2026-launch/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:42:00 +0800 https://cuigh.com/posts/steam-machine-2026-launch/ On June 22, [Valve's launch thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632884) sat at the top of Hacker News for the entire day and finished at 1201 points with 1085 comments. $1049 base, AMD Zen 4 + RDNA3, SteamOS 3.8 with Wayland as the default desktop, and a reservation system that closes Thursday June 25 at 10am Pacific. The community is split between 'cheaper than expected' and 'who is this for?' — and the answer to that question decides whether the living-room Linux console is a real category or another 2015.