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That wouldn't be a bad thing. A lot of the trailer footage was dedicated to showing video editing and 3d modeling software (it's just a PC, was one of the marketing lines). They want people to buy this machine. Who cares if they aren't gamers. Valve also sells digital creative software on Steam.
Yeah, that's kinda my point.
If we are talking about businesses, chances are they will simply install windows on it and use licences of applications they already own.. Again, "it's just a pc". The vast majority of businesses don't buy licenses on steam, so why would they change that?
Again, who cares? A sale for Valve is money into Linux gaming support. Still not a bad thing. I don't care what corporations use in their daily work. It is me who wants to use Linux for gaming.
But I doubt it will happen, if a ton of companies want to buy hundreds of computers at a time, they won't buy from Valve. They have their own vendors who sell in bulk at lower prizes. Corporations today acquire mostly laptops for day to day office work and mini PCs for service stations. High power workstations usually exceed the steam machine by a whole order of magnitude in required specs, and it is way too powerful just to shift spreadsheets around. The mid range independent creator space and mid range studios might see some use for it if it's cheap. But I don't see them causing scarcity of the machine itself. There are other just as cheap options purpose made for office work.