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[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Except knowledge.

It's foolish of you to assume that most people want to build a computer.

And before people respond with 'its just Legos'

There is so much more to it for someone with little to no knowledge.

Bios and firmware updates that require certain CPUs coupled with certain motherboards.

CPU sockets and inter compatibility.

The different specs of any given component and the value they provide to someone looking for specific workflows

Sizing of components and cases

Knowing where to find parts and what prices are acceptable.

Etc, etc ,etc.

Pick something that you know nothing about, let's say cars just as an example.

Now imagine, let's, say want to buy a car but it doesn't come with wheels, you don't get a list of 4 wheels to choose from, You get, lug patterns, sizing, and type, offset, wheel diameter, wheel width, bead lockers or no bead lockers, 1 piece, 2 piece or 3 piece, etc.

Now you have to spend all this time researching just about wheels, and then how they fit with the car you chose specifically earlier in the process, it would be frustrating and incredibly difficult for people who just want a car.

Go on any thread or forum and ask 'what GPU should I get' which is already making assumptions about someones understanding and knowledge (that they even know what a GPU is), and you will get 20 conflicting answers and need to write a paragraph in responses to narrow it down enough.

Present someone with no knowledge this: 'DDR3-2666 CL9' vs 'DDR3-2000 CL7'. How do you really expect someone who just wants to play a video game to just implicitly know what those numbers mean, how they relate to each other etc.

Building a computer is an immensely difficult task for someone who doesn't know much or anything about it, and believe it or not, the reality is not everyone wants to learn, places like lemmy and other tech focused echo chambers seem to forget that.

[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Also the scale. With steam scale its likely that they could just buy a massive numbers of gpus and cpus from amd for much cheaper.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Guaranteed good driver support too, since Valve fund devs to work on the AMD GPU drivers on Linux.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

i'm perfectly happy with my pre-built machines. I like tech and love learning about it but- I don't really find value in putting a huge amount of time into building my PC from scratch when someone else can do it, and that person knows way more than me already!

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

All of your comment is true, although it's ignoring the fairly sizable pre-built market. You don't have to do it yourself, although I would say people should so they can diagnose issues themselves.

Pre-built sellers just need to offer SteamOS, or other Linux distributions, as an option at checkout instead of Windows.

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